Word: thermonuclear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happened several hundred miles away from Kwajalein, somewhere in the U.S. proving ground in the Marshall Islands. In a precautionary rehearsal of a formal test shot from an Air Force bomber that will take place sometime in the next two weeks, U.S. scientists had exploded a thermonuclear device atop a tower. The force of the blast completely surprised them...
...blast upset plans for the formal test shot, which will be witnessed by the AEC, the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, and Dr. Edward Teller, the scientist principally responsible for the thermonuclear weapon. While scientists feverishly recalculated their data and tried to explain the unexpected force of the big blast, the formal test was postponed a few days. That test, in which a thermonuclear device will be dropped from the bays of a B-36 on the shrouds of a huge parachute (to give the plane time to get out of the way), is expected to duplicate the March...
...rulers of Russia have begun at last to tell the Russian people the sobering facts of the thermonuclear age. Said Premier Georgy Malenkov last week in a major address from Moscow: "A third World War would mean the destruction of world civilization." To the Russians this was news. For years, they have been told by their leaders, in the style set by Joseph Stalin and Georgy Malenkov himself, that a new war would destroy the capitalist system, not the Communist world. They have been kept in ignorance of the horrors and the dangers of atomic warfare...
...years the thermonuclear bomb has lain like a half-seen nightmare in the back of the world's imagination. Scientists have mentioned it with awe in their voices...
...Figure. Speaking to a Chicago convention of sand, gravel and ready-mixed concrete dealers, Congressman Cole revealed a single, overwhelming fact: "The thermonuclear test of 1952 completely obliterated the test island in the Eniwetok Atoll. It tore a cavity in the floor of the ocean-a crater-measuring a full mile in diameter and 175 ft. in depth at its lowest point...