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...route from New York to Bordeaux, entered the Halifax roadstead on the morning of Dec. 6. The Mont Blanc was only a 3,000-tonner, but its cargo was something more than mere ammunition. Every usable square foot of cargo space was crammed with raw explosives-200 tons of TNT and 2,300 tons of lyddite, which is more powerful than TNT. On deck, reeking like an Esso station, were 35 tons of benzole in drums stacked three high...
...TNT to within a mile of any target up to 6,300 miles away (Moscow is 5,100 miles, Peking...
...Russians, reported on the progress of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Plowshare, exploring peaceful applications of nuclear explosions. He told of a Plowshare test in Nevada last summer in which a thermonuclear device with a power of 100 kilotons (equivalent to 100,000 tons of TNT) was exploded underground, creating in a few seconds a crater 1,200 ft. wide and 320 ft. deep. Such explosions, he said, could be used to make harbors and canals, remove earth and rock covering mineral deposits. Nuclear explosions, said Teller, have "the potentiality of becoming the first really important and thoroughly...
...stretch of railway near the borders of Hong Kong and Macao. An attempt was also made to destroy a Macao-Canton ferryboat, but it was foiled when crewmen discovered a tin labeled "Apricot Kernel Cakes with Meat Filling" behind a men's room mirror. It was a TNT bomb, and the passenger suspected of planting it was executed two weeks...
...explosion was the first thermonuclear (H-bomb) device known to have been exploded in North America (all other U.S. H-shots have been in the western Pacific). Generating a force of 100,000 tons of TNT, it was also the most powerful blast ever to be touched off in the U.S. (the atomic bomb that decimated Hiroshima had a force of 20,000 tons of TNT). The Atomic Energy Commission announced that 95% of the blast's radioactivity was either trapped in the ground or returned to earth by the falling debris. Purpose of the explosion: to test...