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What was the weapon? Was it what famed U.S. Physicist Ralph Lapp calls a "gigaton" bomb-a nuclear weapon packing the power of a billion tons of TNT that could be detonated 100 miles off the U.S.'s coastline and still set off a 50-ft. tidal wave that would sweep across much of the entire North American continent? Was it a cobalt bomb that would send a deadly cloud sweeping forever about the earth? A "death ray" or a germ bomb? Or even an empty boast? Two days later Nikita Khrushchev said it wasn't nuclear...
Does the nature of their research exempt scientists from the compulsion to stand by? Men like Hans Bethe, Ralph Lapp, Isidor Rabi and others...
Speaking at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, Dr. Ralph E. Lapp questioned the value of designating makeshift shelters in the central cities and stocking them with food and water. Such a policy fails to give any protection against the blast or its heat wave, he declared. Without such protection, the chances for survival within six miles of the blast are very small...
...true that you cannot survive nuclear attack," Lapp maintained. Nevertheless survival depends on a realistic, quantitative assessment of the effects of fallout. "Once a nuclear war breaks out, radioactivity may well become the great dictator of human behavior," he stated...
...Lapp charged that political and economic considerations--the attempts of Congressmen to provide "lunch buckets" for their constituents--have resulted in the construction of missile bases near metropolitan areas, where they become "lighting rods" for attracting enemy weapons...