Word: tnt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force was calculated at five megatons, i.e., equal to 5,000,000 tons of TNT or 250 times the force of the Hiroshima atomic bomb...
Such industries as oil, chemicals, and atomic energy, where materials are dangerous for men to handle but easily adaptable to machines, have necessarily become almost completely automatic. Some are even using TV to keep an eye on remote-control processes. The Army is building a completely automatic TNT factory in Joliet, 111., while work on an atomic engine for the AEC includes such contraptions as General Electric's "O-Man," a 15-ton remote-controlled claw to handle radioactive material. (It can screw a nut on a bolt, and can even be made to pick...
...which governed the two greatest powers brought a strange sense of indecisiveness to world affairs. The strain of the cold war brought hesitations and serious arguments to the Western Alliance. The dawning of the thermonuclear age, with its talk of megaton bombs (equal to 1,000,000 tons of TNT), cast great and sudden doubt on the validity of the thinking and the plans of statesmen and diplomats and soldiers. Both sides were caught in a sort of pause, to re-examine and to retool. It was in this atmosphere of confusion, holding back and reassessment that the unhesitant, unconfused...
...Atomic bombs today are more than 25 times as powerful as the weapon with which the atomic age dawned, while the hydrogen weapons are in the range of millions of tons of TNT equivalent...
Smith gave a striking illustration of the atomic-thermonuclear revolution in firepower. If a one-inch cube were considered the equivalent of one ton of TNT. the average bomber load in World War II would stand four inches high; the Nagasaki-Hiroshima atomic bomb would be a 1,666-ft. column, more than three times the height of the Washington monument; the "conventional" atomic bomb of today would tower 4,998 ft. high; and the power of the thermonuclear superbomb, similarly expressed, would be represented by a column soaring 63 miles into...