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...bigger; nuclear charges fall no faster than others and are more expensive. But a curious discovery is that more energy may be released when a sphere is collapsed under water than when it is blown outward against pressure. To measure this, Navy scientists once sent a 6-in.-diameter hollow ball 3,500 ft. to the bottom. Collapsed by a spring trigger when it hit, it exploded with as much force as a "sizable" charge...
...writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows . . . The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing." In Hemingway's "refreshing" Paris Review interview [Aug. 11], he remarked, "I always write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate...
...naval ordnance expert who had been with the Manhattan Project almost from its start, he sent current through Little Boy's test leads, watched calmly for the green monitor lights that told him Little Boy's mighty power was still in check. Fewer than 5 ft. of hollow shaft separated Little...
...radar rigs inside Little Boy measured the fall. After 15 long seconds, Little Boy began listening for the faint echoes of its own radar signals to earth. On the igth echo-800 ft. above the rooftops of Hiroshima-a powder charge sent one uranium mass bullet-ing through a hollow shaft into the other mass. In one fifteen-hundredth of a microsecond, fission began. In that dreadful instant a city died, and 70,000 of its inhabitants...
...Americans," she finds, after a sight-seeing tour to Colorado, "are too self-conscious about getting along." Whereas Britishers greet each other under the assumption that all's wrong with the world, Americans, she stated, "make a hollow attempt at cheerfulness." "Conversations start on such a happy note that they can only go down-hill...