Word: high-yield
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...Permanent admissions staff and some of its outside reinforcements such adopts several geographical areas the country, visit from time to time in order to recruit or to talk with local Harvard Club officials. The average area assignment includes metropolitan and some rural , some "high-yield" and some "low-yield" parts of the country, entirely geographically . One staff-member, for example, New York City, southern California, the states of Minnesota and Washington, and northeastern Pennsylvania...
...know-how at a point where the total test yields of the Soviet are a full third greater than our own. I will vote against this treaty because it will erode our military strength. I will vote against this treaty because it preserves the enemy's advances in high-yield weaponry while freeing them to overtake our lead in low-yield research. We pay a price; they...
...event, Secretary McNamara does not believe that the U.S. arsenal requires a superbomb. Said he: "One possible use of the very high-yield weapons would be to deliver them by missile and detonate them at altitudes of 100,000 feet and above, presumably over cities. Detonation at such altitudes could cause significant thermal damage-fire-over hundreds of square miles. But a better way to achieve even greater destruction, and a way which is within the present U.S. capabilities, is to divide the attack among several smaller weapons so as to saturate any defenses...
Concluding his criticism of a strategy which would depend on superbombs, McNamara said: "Very high-yield warheads are relatively inferior as second-strike retaliation weapons; it is much more difficult and costly to make them survivable-to harden, camouflage or make mobile the huge missiles required to deliver these weapons...
Underground Testing. A Soviet crash program to build and equip underground test facilities could enable them to develop U.S.-style smaller, high-yield nuclear weapons. Because they have more to learn from below-ground testing than the U.S., the Russians have more to gain by an intensive underground testing program...