Word: superbomb
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...size of the blasts will probably range from about 1 kiloton to 15 megatons-about the size of the largest weapon ever detonated by the U.S. For the present, the U.S. has no plans to explode a superbomb such as the 58-megaton device detonated by the Russians last fall. But U.S. scientists will have plenty to keep them busy. They have been itching for months not only to try out experiments suggested by the Russian tests, but to move forward along the lines of progress already laid down by the last U.S. tests, and to experiment with a host...
...attitudes. Now that the Russians have done their bit, people tell me, it's time we got cracking ourselves-even if it means atmospheric testing." Detroit's Police Commissioner Herbert Hart felt that the Russians may have done the U.S. a service: "I believe that the Russian superbomb angered our people and succeeded only in placing them more firmly behind any decision that President Kennedy might now have to make...
...another kind of test, Khrushchev's superbomb prompted many of those who respect or merely fear Russia to re-examine their consciences. In the U.N. a number of small nations that are normally reluctant to offend Moscow pluckily backed an emergency appeal to Khrushchev expressing "deep concern" over his scheduled 50-megaton explosion -though other small nations and neutrals eventually emasculated it. Britain's most influential Ban-the-Bomber, Philosopher Bertrand Russell, who has been quicker to censure the U.S. than the U.S.S.R. for possessing nuclear arms, stormed out of an hour-long protest meeting with Russian embassy...
...Hungarian revolution of 1956 and as they did last week, with the pressure mounting over Berlin. To a world that was surprised as much as it was dismayed (see THE WORLD). Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union would resume test ing its nuclear weapons, boasted of a superbomb that had the force of 100 million tons of TNT-5,000 times the size of the A-bomb that leveled Hiroshima, and five times the size of the biggest bomb in the U.S. arsenal. Two days later, the testing began with a medium-sized bomb explosion in Central Asia. Thus...
Chevalier's most tantalizing implication is that Bloch, blind as Oedipus in his pride, believes that only he can control the use and abuse of the superbomb. In this light, Mark Ampter is a human sacrifice to Bloch's God complex. This^ view may be colored by Chevalier's personal resentment (although he claims that "this book was written not with hatred but with love," the novel's underlying tone suggests an ex-worshipper stomping on a fallen idol). But strangely enough, the Atomic Energy Commission came to a very similar conclusion about Oppenheimer...