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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...
...Bristol shelter lies under 40 inches of radiation-resistant material, can house and feed 1.500 employees for two weeks. Water is drawn from underground wells, and a pulsating communications center is equipped to send and receive short-wave messages. The shelter can withstand blast and fallout from a 20-megaton bomb five miles away...
Kiloton, a unit used in measuring the energy of a nuclear weapon, is equivalent to the energy released by the explosion of 1,000 tons of TNT. A megaton is equivalent to 1,000,000 tons. The Hiroshima bomb was a 20-kiloton bomb...
Comedienne Stritch punches out her lines with the raucous authority of a pneumatic drill, and in a number called Why Do the Wrong People Travel? she is a song blaster in the megaton range. Choreographer Joe Layton paces the show with wryly inventive dance sequences, notably a goofily spastic Beatnik Love Affair. An Italian wedding party that turns into a tourist trap is a hilarious cross-cultural spoof. But the S.S. Coronia is really a ship of the desert, and it is a long dry haul between oases...
...Based on a three-year-old Rand Corp. estimate of the radiation that worldwide fallout from a relatively small (20,000-megaton) attack would scatter on fields, woods and other parts of "the natural environment...