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...high-voltage linear accelerators have been designed to propel particles at high speeds through electrical fields to give them high energy but little heat effect; a low-voltage, high-current accelerator shooting more particles at lower speeds might supply the few millions of degrees required for fusion. Even ordinary TNT "shaped charge" explosions might do the triggering. Already, said Bhabha. Indian theoretical scientists were making "reasonable progress" toward an answer...
Born on a tabletop in Joe's Café, The dirtiest place in the U.S.A., Killed his paw with TNT . Killed his maw with...
...megaton bomb (equivalent in energy to 10 million tons of TNT), says Libby, creates 1,100 Ibs. of radioactive fission products. Airborne for one day and then spread evenly over an area of 100,000 square miles, it would give each unsheltered person a dose of 67 roentgens per day. This is not far from the strength of the "snow" that fell on the Marshall Islanders.* They survived because they were evacuated promptly and cared for well, but as Libby remarks in an understatement, evacuation of 100,000 square miles (more than twice the size of New York State...
...simply took the handful's word on faith. It took him 40 years to see the proof that E = mc² means that an ounce of matter-sand, oxygen, uranium-holds within itself as much energy as that given off by the explosion of 875,000 tons of TNT. But in the flash of Hiroshima...
...until one found out how to catch a rat. In the lonely hours between midnight and 3 a.m., Graves is still checking, between catnaps and gin rummy games. To help predict the blast effects of each atomic explosion, World War II Navy depth charges containing 2,400 Ibs. of TNT are exploded two hours and one hour before zero hour. In the morning, when Graves gives the order, eight scientists ride an elevator up the tower to the device cabin to arm the explosive device. They report each move by telephone to Graves in the command post. A checklist...