Word: thermonuclear
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...Boston University, challenged Khrushchev's repeated assertions that the Soviet Union is dedicated to peace and disarmament. "We are convinced that any nation that puts its own military security above the interests of humanity as a whole is making a concious choice that will inevitably lead to a thermonuclear war," they stated...
Bollen urged the United States not to respond to the Soviet example and thus continue a vicious cycle of violence which would lead ultimately to thermonuclear...
...thermonuclear attack were to achieve complete surprise, the first warning would be the blinding flash, visible for hundreds of miles, of the bomb itself. Within an area of up to one mile from ground zero, everything would be vaporized; destruction and death, even to those in the deepest shelters, would be certain. Initial heat radiation would be released in two separate pulses within a few seconds and would incinerate virtually everything within a five-mile radius. Although fog or industrial smog would greatly decrease the effect, exposed persons would suffer third-degree burns out to ten miles and blistering...
...been estimated that a great majority of the deaths suffered in an atomic attack would come from fallout radiation-and it is against radiation that shelters can be most effective. Given between 30 minutes' and an hour's warning of a 150-city thermonuclear attack, an adequate national system of fallout shelters might well cut the death rate from 160 million to 85 million; add an effective blast-shelter system, and the number of deaths could drop to 25 million...
...being drawn up. Assistant Defense Secretary Steuart Pittman, 42, an ex-marine who was appointed chief of OCD, set the goals for the first phase: "It's an opportunity for people to take part in a vital defense program, to demonstrate the will to face up to thermonuclear warfare. This program carries a message to our Allies, neutrals and potential enemies...