Word: tnt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombs. No one crew member can do it alone; for each man who arms the bomb, regulations require that another must be in attendance and watching closely. Knobs must be turned, safety seals broken, keys inserted and turned to close a series of detonator circuits embedded in the TNT that activates the nuclear core on impact...
...Equivalent to 1 billion tons of TNT...
...propagandists made strides in Bolivia. When a group of junketing members of the Soviet Party Congress arrived in La Paz last week, they were greeted by a wildly cheering throng, which clashed with cops when it tried to raise Red flags atop the airport terminal. Later, a TNT bomb was tossed into the courtyard of the U.S. embassy, shattering windows but fortunately injuring no one. It was the third incident against Ambassador Carl Strom in less than two months, and the government of Bolivia's pro-West President Victor Paz Estenssoro was forced to issue its official regrets...
...slimmer of the two, was a duplicate of the 10-ft.-long, 9,000-lb. bomb that decimated Hiroshima. The 10,000-lb., spheroid "Fat Man," with its 5-ft. girth, crushed Nagasaki. Between them, the two bombs, each packing the punch of 20,000 tons of TNT, accounted for more than 200,000 casualties and dumped the world unceremoniously into the responsibilities of the nuclear...
...John B. Medaris, recently retired chief of the Army's Ballistic Missile Agency. Medaris told an A.F.L.-C.I.O. World Affairs Manhattan meeting last week that "a prominent Senator" (who turned out to be Jack Kennedy) estimates that the U.S. already has an atomic stockpile equaling "ten tons of TNT for every man, woman and child on earth." World population: 2.8 billion...