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...incredible 6,000 feet beneath tiny Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. The signal was given and in one-tenth of a millionth of a second, Cannikin, code name for the most powerful underground nuclear test ever held by the U.S., exploded with the force of 5 million tons of TNT. TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager reported from the command bunker on Amchitka that half a second after detonation the earth heaved upward, hiding the test site in a curtain of dust and water, and aftershocks rumbled to the bunker 23 miles away. Seismographs registered a shock of the magnitude of seven...
...case, the Spartan warhead will be buried forever and lost. Not to worry. It only cost $200 million. And if anybody is concerned about just leaving it there, with all its potential nuclear power, it can be harmlessly destroyed by a small charge of TNT, which the AEC has already installed against just such a contingency...
...first wartime breakthrough was the invention of RDX (research department explosives) which was much more effective than TNT. After three years of conventional explosives research. Kistiakowsky began his two years of research on the atomic bomb. Next, he said, "we finally understood how to control detonation of explosives as a precision instrument-using very high pressure very suddenly...
Before setting out from Japan, Bucher asked Rear Admiral Frank Johnson, his boss, for TNT charges to scuttle the Pueblo in an emergency. The request went to a supply officer, who offered thermite instead. Bucher realized that carrying thermite, an incendiary substance, was both dangerous and contrary to Navy regulations. He could have made a fuss but decided against doing so. "All I could accomplish by pressing it further," he writes as apologia, "was to upset Admiral Johnson and his staff by giving them the impression they had a skipper on their hands who seemed obsessed with the capability...
...missiles cover you at all heights. They can also navigate toward you just like enemy pilots. One thing you can't forget is that there is a quarter of a ton of TNT coming at you. Even if it doesn't hit you, it can get you if it explodes near enough. Even at a distance, you can feel a harsh bump, and the entire plane rocks when it explodes...