Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McNamara. Under it, NATO will counter any Soviet attack with a three-phase graduated response that will begin with conventional weapons, step up to limited-range battlefield nuclear missiles, and progress to all-out H-bomb attack on the Soviet Union only if the Russians refuse to withdraw...
...countdown. For a tense moment, nothing happened. Then the earth jolted underfoot and a dull, distant boom was heard, followed by a second, more gentle, rolling shock. Someone shouted: "We did it! We did it!" Hand shakes were exchanged all around. The U.S. had successfully set off the first nuclear explosion sponsored jointly by the Government and industry...
Detonated 4,240 ft. below the surface, the 26-kiloton nuclear device was the key tool of Project Gasbuggy, a venture financed by the Atomic Energy Commission and the El Paso Natural Gas Co. and designed to increase natural-gas output. The blast was intended to shatter a large portion of the 285-ft.-thick layer of gas-bearing sandstone lying beneath the Leandro Canyon, thus releasing gas that is tightly locked within the rock. 35-Story Cavity. Ordinarily, gas is obtained simply by drilling a well into a formation of gas-bearing rock. Natural underground pressures then force...
Last week's nuclear explosion, on the other hand, should have produced such extensive shattering and cracking, according to AEC experts, that as much as 70% of the gas i in the surrounding rock should flow into the well over a 20-year period, cotnpared with only 10% that would be recovered by hydraulic fracturing or nitroglycerin blasting. Within a minute after the searing blast formed a 160-ft.-diameter cavity in the earth, they calculate, the roof of the cavity should Save begun to collapse (TIME, Nov. 3), eventually forming a chimney of fractured rock as tall...
With the aid of 1,071 meticulous diagrams, the one-volume encyclopedia bravely tackles the explanation of such formidable devices as nuclear reactors, semiconductors, lasers and Polaroid cameras. It also considers the simple household devices and commonplace mechanics of contemporary life that are probably almost as puzzling to many readers: from flush toilets to door locks, from zippers to kitchen matches. The prose is straightforward and clear-which is all the more remarkable since it is an American adaptation of a British translation of the original German...