Word: superbomb
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Great Britain disclosed last week that a "new and highly secret" ammunition had already gone to work on U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic. Speculation centered on depth charges: this was perhaps a depth charge as correspondingly powerful as Britain's much vaunted superbomb (which, it is claimed, can level a whole city block of four-story stone buildings). Whatever it was, it remained, last week, just "stuff...
Last week the Berlin radio boasted that Germany has a superbomb which could kill men by concussion and destroy everything within a radius of 1,600 ft. The distance was incredibly great, but death by concussion is an established wartime fact. In an article by Dr. Solly Zuckerman, famed Oxford anatomist, the British medical journal The Lancet last week described the damage, often fatal, which may be done to lungs by explosions...