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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...
After the bomb's fireball has expanded to full size (1½ miles diameter for a one-megaton bomb), the cloud of hot gas rises like a balloon, dragging with it a column of dust. Some of the dust falls to the ground within a few hours, becoming part of the local fallout. The rest climbs high in the atmosphere with the cooling, condensing cloud...
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...