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...sheath. Most of the remainder is converted into a shock wave that races through the missile. At a distance of two miles, the impact of the shock wave on a 6½-ft. dia. 30-megaton warhead would be equivalent to the explosion of 2 or 3 Ibs. of TNT within the missile, which may be enough to set off some of the lens-shaped charges of conventional explosives inside (see diagram). These, in turn, would cause the remaining lens-shaped explosives to detonate. Because all of the conventional charges would not explode simultaneously, as they are designed...
There is some limited dissent even from this almost univer sally held view. According to Lateran University's Monsignor Ferdinando Lambrushchini, the destruction of military objectives with nuclear weapons might be morally more justifiable than the bombing of cities with TNT. However, the moral condemnation of nuclear war is relatively obvious and easy. What is often overlooked is the fact that the very horror of using nuclear weapons may have inaugurated a new era in which limited, conventional wars are likelier than before. It is precisely in such limited conflicts that the old just-war principles seem pertinent again...
...seconds, 54 Titan II missiles, which carry considerably more megatonnage than the smaller Minuteman, and 608 sub-borne Polarises-1,602 birds in all. With additions already under way, the flock will soon total 1,720 and pack a combined wallop equal to 1.8 billion tons of TNT, more than half a ton for every human being on earth. Nonetheless, the U.S. is planning yet another expansion of its missile arsenal...
...been no more than 500,000. Du Pont had warned Government men before that the stuff was also a deadly explosive, and AID officials ordered a Naval Ordnance Laboratory test last month to determine its effectiveness. They were surprised to find that the compound is almost as powerful as TNT, and the big order for Unicel was canceled-along with any future shipments to Viet Nam. Administration officials admitted that they had no clear idea of how much Unicel had already landed there-or how much had gone into saboteurs' bombs instead of sandals...
...wide no-man's land, fronted by two six-ft. fences of barbed wire, patrolled by armed Hungarian border police and Hungarian dogs, and secured by the Hungarians - since the early days of the cold war - by some 7,000,000 little brown boxes containing lethal charges of TNT. As the Iron Curtain wears thin, the mines are be coming as much of an embarrassment as a hindrance to trespassers. Stray cats or even a speedy thaw sets them off in the night, and in last year's torrential floods a great many mines sown on hillsides along...