Word: tnt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Koreans had found that they could hold the crest if they kept the Chinese off the neighboring knobs; and the enemy was holding by his fingernails only to three knobs, known as the Three Sisters. The Koreans tunneled under the Three Sisters, laid massive charges of TNT, and blew the knobs and most of the Chinese on them to smithereens. After that, White Horse seemed secure...
...large mass of "tamper," i.e., a heavy metal such as lead or tungsten, whose inertia held the bomb together while the nuclear explosion was getting under way. If the tamper were eliminated, which is possible, the bomb would weigh not much more than an eleven-inch sphere of TNT (about...
Nathan L. Halpern, 37-year-old president and founder of Theater Network Television, is looking forward to $10 million sports gates when most of the nation's 18,000 movie houses and 4,000 drive-ins are equipped for TNT. A former basketball player at the University of Southern California and an ex-CBS executive, Halpern also has big plans for bringing Broadway to Main Street. "Most musicals cost about $300,000 to produce. With TNT you can make back your complete investment in one night. We'll be able to do complete plays because...
Into a spherical cavity 18 ft. in diameter, carved deep in solid sandstone, the engineers packed 320,000 pounds of TNT, cast in close-fitting blocks. Then the shaft was blocked with material as solid as the living rock. Instruments and test structures, dug in for miles around, waited for the rock shock. When the charge exploded, the earth rose up in a mound, as if a giant fist had poked up through mud. Jets of flame burst through the debris. Jagged boulders soared through the air; good-sized chunks of rock landed a mile away, and smaller fragments covered...
Shock Test. In atomic lingo, a "nominal" bomb is the one used at Hiroshima, which released as much energy as 20,000 tons of TNT. The Buckhorn Wash "bomb" (160 tons of TNT) released 1/125th as much energy. But because the explosive effect of a bomb decreases only by the cube root of its comparative size, the jolt it gave the rock around it was roughly one-fifth as powerful...