Word: megaton
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Because of this hostility-and the fact that the majority of top U.S. humorists are Jewish-Jews figure prominently among the dark breed that has been operating as "black humorists," an easily applied label that sticks to those who examine the megaton-megalopolis age and find it funny only in a fearsome way. In Catch-22, now a classic of its genre, Joseph Heller presents an American pilot who would bomb his country's bases for "cost"plus 6%." In Stem, Bruce Jay Friedman deflates the American concept of the hero by making his anti-hero a round-shouldered...
...floating garbage to see if they can detect Red cabbage, a staple of Soviet submarines. In another cryptic comment on cold war manners, a Russian surface vessel passes to port, simultaneously dipping its colors and dumping refuse over the side. Such cogency is missing from the standard high-megaton finale. Obviously made without the full cooperation of any specific navy, Incident emerges at last as its own worst enemy-a timely sea saga that cannot resist turning a treat into a preachment...
...bombs, and have subsequently produced hundreds of weapons capable of unprecedented destruction, the citizens of Los Alamos are neither self-conscious nor guilt-ridden about their role. They are also remarkably unconcerned about living in a city that would be a prime target in any war, and in which megaton-range weapons are produced within sight of their front doors. This sense of detachment, caused more by geography than psychology, extends even to world events. While Los Alamos residents become passionately involved in local controversies and conservation drives, they are notably uncommunicative about Viet Nam, foreign policy and threats...
...satiric talent. It comes from a promising, if often provoking new group of U.S. novelists who were unpublished or all but unnoticed a few years ago These writers demand attention with a maverick, inventive, acidulously adult outlook that delights in salting the sores and needling the niceties of the megaton-megalopolis age. They deserve notice because their brand of comedy is so clearly not the saccharine hilarity packaged by commercial laff merchants not the bad-boy snigger of contemporary bedroom farce. Nor does it necessarily appeal even to sophisticated tastes; it is for those who prefer mountain brooks to mainstreams...
...they will be supplanted by SSBS missiles (the sibilant stands for sol-sol-balistique-strategique, or ground-to-ground-ballistic-strategic), to be lodged in hard-base silos in France. With a range of 1,800 miles, the two-stage SSBS missile will pack a warhead in the megaton range, making it roughly the equivalent of the already operational Polaris missile, smallest of the U.S. strategic rockets...