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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Jews resumed their attempts to enter Palestine illegally. Three miles off the coast, a British minesweeper intercepted the 200-ton schooner Palmach, loaded with 800 refugees and quantities of TNT concealed in soap bars. A British boarding party was met with "a shower of missiles." Before fire hoses and tear gas ended the resistance, one illegal immigrant was killed and several British sailors were injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Moderation | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

Your "Bad Government" [June 10] was good TNT. After 16 years here may I comment? Suggestions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 22, 1946 | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...including the mass of all matter, is merely another form of energy." In his famous equation, he gave their equivalent values: E = mc2.*This meant that every pound of any kind of matter contained as much energy as is given off by the explosion of 14 million tons of TNT. It took the world 40 years (until Hiroshima) to appreciate this shocker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Crossroads | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Many jittery readers, wondered whether the Bikini atomic-bomb test had been given a secret preview. Answer: a definite no. It would take many times 20,000 tons of TNT (the equivalent of the atomic bomb to be dropped at Bikini) to match the earthquake in the Aleutian Deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tsunami the Terrible | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...with hidden volcanoes waiting to erupt on a chosen Pearl Harbor day. "A target, to be safe must be surrounded by a sanitary area at least a mile in radius. Any house can be as dangerous to its surroundings as the greatest of powder magazines. Twenty thousand tons of TNT can be kept under the counter of a candy store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: World War III Preview | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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