Word: radius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomb exploded 2,000 feet above the ground would do the greatest damage. Virtually everything within a radius of half a mile by ground zero will be destroyed or irreparably damaged by the blast, the heat, or by fires started by the heat. Within the next mile, countless fires will be started by the heat radiation. As many fires will be started by broken gas lines, electrical short circuits. Broken water lines will make fire-fighting almost impossible...
...badly off as it seemed. To date, the planes most needed in Korea are not the fastest, latest jets on which the aircraft industry's skeleton production is concentrating, but World War II types like the Mustang F-51. These are slower but have the longer cruising radius needed to fly from distant bases and provide tactical support for ground troops (see WAR IN ASIA). The U.S. had 4,600 such World War II planes in "moth balls" when the Korean war began and was rushing them into action. But Secretary Johnson had earlier this year cut back, from...
...which used to give the impression that it wouldn't stoop to retaliation, has since developed the habit. Last week it struck back at Rumania. With undisguised relish, State notified the seven-member Rumanian diplomatic staff in Washington that henceforth they were to stay within a 35-mile radius of the capital, leave the area only by specific permission from the State Department's Chief of Protocol. Short of living in Red Rumania, there were few diplomatic punishments as bad as spending an unrelieved summer in the jungle heat of Washington...
What locks the faults? There is astronomical evidence, says Dr. Benioff, that the earth's radius changes slightly, for an unknown reason. When its radius is smaller than normal, the faults may be locked tightly. When the earth swells up again, even a tiny bit, the faults may loosen enough to set off earthquakes...
...political and destructive effects rather than the technical problems of the hydrogen bomb. While it is not true, he wrote (in the uncensored portion of his article), that the bomb could set the world's atmosphere afire, it "would cause almost complete destruction of buildings up to a radius of ten miles . . . Chicago with all its suburbs and most of their inhabitants [could be] wiped out in a single flash." Bethe asked for new efforts to reach an atomic agreement with Russia, and a unilateral declaration, by the President or Congress, that the U.S. will not be the first...