Word: tnt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomblet, packing the wallop of 1,700 tons of TNT, exploded 800 ft. underground on the AEC's Nevada proving grounds, opened up a new vista for the peaceful uses of atomic explosives (see SCIENCE). But the prospect of the bright atomic future stirred up less interest in Washington than a dispute over how far away an underground A-bomblet's shock wave can be detected. Reason: the ability to detect or conceal a test explosion has a vital bearing on the growing debate over whether the U.S. should accept Russia's proposal for a suspension...
Working under Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, commander of Operation Deep Freeze Three, Linehan set off three blasts of TNT in a 48-ft. crater not far from Paul Siple's camp. (The crater had been made by an air-dropped tractor that dropped too far too fast.) The sound wave took .4 seconds to reach solid rock beneath the ice and return. Linehan calculated that the bedrock is 903 ft. above sea level. Over this is "very dense" ice 8,200 ft. thick, topped by a 20-ft. belt of "hard" ice. In turn, the hard-ice belt...
...Genie (formerly dubbed Ding Dong and High Card), manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Co. The Genie's nuclear punch, said an Air Force spokesman, is "well below nominal"-nominal meaning, in the strange new vocabulary of the Atomic Age, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. But even a "well below'nominal" air-to-air nuclear rocket could destroy a whole flight of enemy bombers with the smash of its shock wave...
Implicit in the report was the new military fact that the U.S. could soon have H-bombs like "tremendously more powerful TNT'' (as Lawrence put it), to destroy limited military objectives rather than to contaminate whole provinces and nations. Beyond that, the meaning of the scientists' report was that the U.S. is approaching a major development in atomic power for peace: how to produce the vast energy of H-bomb fusion-perhaps controlled energy-by means other than using radioactive, atomic fission to set off the fusion process...
Other pop and jazz records: Atom Bomb Baby (The Five Stars; Dot). A rocking, slack-mouthed salute to a terrifying mid-20th-century paragon who is "a million times hotter than TNT." A candidate for success in the jukebox and leather-jacket...