Word: thermonuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explosion was the first thermonuclear (H-bomb) device known to have been exploded in North America (all other U.S. H-shots have been in the western Pacific). Generating a force of 100,000 tons of TNT, it was also the most powerful blast ever to be touched off in the U.S. (the atomic bomb that decimated Hiroshima had a force of 20,000 tons of TNT). The Atomic Energy Commission announced that 95% of the blast's radioactivity was either trapped in the ground or returned to earth by the falling debris. Purpose of the explosion: to test...
...decision to change from a policy of finite deterent to one of massive counter-force, Mr. Hughes emphasized, has come only recently. In effect the United States will now build nuclear power capable, of in air force terminology, of "winning" a thermonuclear war. American force will not only be strong enough to wipe out all Soviet missle basis in a fist strike. But, even after U.S. first-line bases have been attacked, U.S. power will be capable of destroying cities in a second major blow. In the past, Hughes stressed, American strategy had relied on a minimum force, sufficient...
...practice firing, executed last week under condition EWO (Emergency War Operations) by the ist Strategic Aerospace Division of the Strategic Air Command, is a rarity; Atlases, even without warheads, cost nearly a million dollars apiece and are not to be treated casually. Yet in an age when an intercontinental thermonuclear strike order could be received at any moment, a key warrior breed will be the missileer, whose fighting environment, neither sea nor sky nor foxhole, will be a concrete blockhouse or an underground fortress. His ties to the world outside will be electric wires. TV screens, knobs, dials, microphones, buttons...
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...helped measure bomb yields at the Crossroads tests at Bikini in 1946, and at the Sandstone tests at Eniwetok atoll in 1948, directed technical operations during the Ranger series on Nevada's Frenchman Flat in 1951. He was in technical command of the world's first thermonuclear explosions, set off over a small island near Eniwetok in 1952. "It was the most terribly impressive thing I've ever seen," he says. "We couldn't even find the damn island...