Word: seared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the bomb's energy is released as radiation- heat and light, which shoot out from the fire ball a fraction of a second after the explosion. Five miles away, the light glares as brightly as 100 suns; up to half a mile the heat waves sear everything directly in their path. Then, too, comes the flood of gamma rays (nuclear X rays). Trapped at first within the fire ball, these deadly rays burst forth a fraction of a second after the bomb explodes...
Where is the Korean war leading the world? Will the fierce forest fire in the mountainous land below the 38th parallel be confined to the Korean peninsula? Will it spread around the globe, to sear the capitals of the world with atomic fire? Or is 1950 the beginning of a series of slow, limited wars that will keep the U.S. and its allies committed in battle for generations...