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...superb cast, two performers are in the megaton range. Peter Firth makes Alan a fallen angel of anguish, and Anthony Hopkins' psychiatrist is a tour de force that should make any other Tony contender blanch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Freudian Exorcism | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

What gives the Soviets this ability is the greater power of their rockets. The S59 and the new SS-18 have "throw-weights" capable of launching warheads packing 25 megatons, equal to 25 million tons of TNT. The most powerful U.S. rocket, the aging Titan 2 (of which 54 are still in operation), can accommodate only a ten-megaton warhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Summit's Deadly Stakes | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...Winston Churchill once said, serves only to "make the rubble bounce." In anything other than an all-out nuclear war, however, accuracy of missiles becomes the critical factor. Here the U.S. has a substantial technological advantage. It requires three of Russia's burly S59 missiles?each with a 25-megaton yield?to hit the same targets as one U.S. Minuteman III with its three warheads and total yield of 600 kilotons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Arming to Disarm in the Age of Detente | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

...They re port in Nature that the black hole's passage through the atmosphere would have left a deep blue trail of ionized particles like the streak seen by witnesses near the 1908 blast. Finally, the energy released by the black hole (comparable to that of a ten-megaton hydrogen bomb) could easily have caused the observed damage without leaving material residue or a crater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Black Hole in Siberia? | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

...winds build and the tropical storm edges away from its birthplace, it releases enormous stores of heat. In a full-fledged hurricane, which has winds of 75 m.p.h. or more, as much energy may be released in a single day as by the detonation of 400 20-megaton hydrogen bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Benefits Of Hurricanes | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

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