Word: megaton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow last week, Nikita Khrushchev not only waved his 50-megaton bomb and derided capitalism; he also crowed about "disunity" among the Western Allies. "Major contradictions divide the U.S.A. and Britain and other imperialist states," he said. "They appear both in NATO and in other aggressive blocs...
Camus died without hearing that clear voice from the Christian camp, and now the forces of 50-megaton terror bray louder than ever. McCord concludes with another Camus passage: " 'We are still waiting, and I am waiting, for a grouping of all those who refuse to be dogs, and are resolved to pay the price that must be paid so that man can be something more than...
When a bomb in the megaton range explodes within a few hundred feet of the ground, as some of the Soviet tests presumably did, it produces three kinds of fallout...
Twenty-four Harvard faculty members signed a telegram sent to Premier Khrushchev hours before Monday's enormous nuclear explosion calling upon him to "stop the current series of Soviet nuclear bomb tests, and in particular, to cancel the 50 megaton hydrogen bomb test...
After a complicated, technical discussion of "Recent Developments in Nuclear Fusion," an expert on atomic physics devoted several minutes of a question-and-answer period in Harkness Commons last night to clearing up common misconceptions about the Soviet 30-megaton bomb and nuclear bombs in general...