Word: kiloton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peking is now believed capable of building several 20-to 30-kiloton nuclear devices a year, probably has enough fissionable material on hand to stage a second test at any time. Uranium is in good supply, as is lithium, an important H-bomb material...
...years, cost them more than $200 million and the talents of 1,800 scientists and engineers - all of which were badly needed elsewhere in China's near-starvation economy. Western experts believe the blast was fueled by plutonium and was slightly smaller than that of the 20-kiloton bombs that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 19 years...
When placed just right, it throws most of the rubble over the lip of a steep-sided hole. A 100-kiloton shot should be placed 600 ft. below the surface, while a one-megaton shot calls for a depth...
...nuclear trimmings. The invading reds began the show by firing nuclear artillery at the blue defenders, supposedly vaporizing the town of Pon-tarlier (pop. 16,000). Smoke machines puffed up mushroom clouds to simulate utter destruction. The blues responded by dispatching a couple of Mirage VIs to drop 60-kiloton bombs on a red town of equivalent size. Meanwhile, back at the battlefield, the blues sprayed 15 tactical nuclear weapons on the reds in an area ten miles long and ten miles wide. More puffs of smoke aux champignons. Fifteen minutes passed, and the blues advanced in tanks...
...rest of the tactical atomic wallop comes in comparatively "little" packages. Yet many of these nuclear runts can carry up to a 100-kiloton load-which is five times the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. These include the Army's 75-mile Sergeant (now replacing the aging Corporal), Lacrosse (for pinpoint blasting of pillboxes, bunkers, etc. less than 20 miles away), the 12-mile Honest John and the 10-mile Little John, the 1,200-yard Davy Crockett (smallest of all the nuclear weapons, it can be hauled about on a Jeep, is designed to blast such...