Word: thermonuclear
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...that Americans have their heads in the sand in regard to civil defense [Aug. 25]. Rather, the terror and horror of thermonuclear attack is comprehensible to even the dullest imagination...
...scientists from 67 countries met for the second U.N. Atoms for Peace conference, the fission-and-fusion future unfolded in a staggering display of brains and machinery. Nobody topped the U.S. effort, a hugely successful reactor exhibit spiced with news that the world's first controlled thermonuclear reaction may have been achieved at Los Alamos. For a report on one of the biggest scientific meetings ever held, see SCIENCE, Monster Conference...
Thirteen years and 113 announced nuclear and thermonuclear blasts after the first fateful mushroom cloud at Alamogordo, N. Mex., the U.S. committed itself to a grave decision. President Dwight Eisenhower, appearing before TV and newsreel cameras in Washington, announced that the U.S. was ready to suspend its nuclear-weapons tests for one year effective Oct. 31. The President attached two major conditions. He required that 1) the U.S.S.R. agree to begin political talks by Oct. 31, aimed at setting up a world network of posts equipped to detect nuclear explosions, presumably in Red China as well as the U.S.S.R...
...House Military Operations Subcommittee last week, "is that the American people and many of their elected and appointed policy officials refuse to accept the distasteful facts of reality simply because they are distasteful." The distasteful facts, as set forth by the subcommittee with help from Rand Corp. researchers: a thermonuclear attack on the 150 largest U.S. cities could wipe out 70% of the nation's industry and kill 160 million people, about 90% of the population...
...body of a long-range missile lives only for its nose. Once shot into space, the nose, with its payload of thermonuclear explosive, speeds on alone, and its problem becomes re-entry into the atmosphere. U.S. missilemen need nose cones that will not burn up from friction as they plummet earthward in a long arc at up to 16,000 m.p.h...