Word: superbomber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event, Secretary McNamara does not believe that the U.S. arsenal requires a superbomb. Said he: "One possible use of the very high-yield weapons would be to deliver them by missile and detonate them at altitudes of 100,000 feet and above, presumably over cities. Detonation at such altitudes could cause significant thermal damage-fire-over hundreds of square miles. But a better way to achieve even greater destruction, and a way which is within the present U.S. capabilities, is to divide the attack among several smaller weapons so as to saturate any defenses...
Shortly after the United States conducted its high-altitude superbomb test last July, Time magazine reported the following in an article titled "Fire...
...miles outside the restricted zone. Ogle was a top technical official at Ivy and Castle, ironically considers Castle the test "which gave us more of practical value than any other." The U.S. H-bomb success came a mere nine months before the Russians fired their own hydrogen superbomb-proving again that the doubters had been wrong...
...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...