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...object of the game is to cut the enemy down to size in the most strategic and efficient manner. A team may decide that the best way to do this is to attack industrial centers, or airfields, or lines of communication. It may use plentiful TNT bombs for some targets and costly but destructive A-bombs for others. It may make many heavy strikes at the start of the war, or try the technique of saving much of its strength until the enemy has expended some...
...armored forces overran the Communists' "iron triangle" without much trouble, capturing large enemy stores of ammunition, fuel, rifles, burp guns, mines, grenades, TNT, and medical supplies. Two U.N. columns of more than 100 tanks closed in on Pyonggang* at the triangle's northern point, and found it empty. But when enemy resistance stiffened to the north and east, the allies pulled back out of the town. The U.N. offensive stalled...
...Pusan foundry last week, grinning Korean workers in tennis shoes were making hand grenades. They cast the casings, crimped fuses and blasting caps together, then poured in TNT by hand. This perilous operation gave U.S. observers the willies. But this was the only operating arms factory in South Korea. All other arms for the R.O.K. forces (except a hoarded supply of cartridges for old Japanese rifles which some South Korean troops use) are provided...
Explosive Lenses. According to Greenglass, the plutonium in the bomb was surrounded by 36 "lenses" of some such high explosive as TNT. Such lenses are roughly analogous to the shaped charges in bazooka projectiles; when they explode, they focus much of their force in one direction. If they are arranged in a spherical shell around the plutonium, their explosion will force it toward a common center...
...waves that serve best as messengers are of very low frequency, normally inaudible to the human ear. Only under exceptional circumstances can a human hear the TNT explosions 160 miles away. The microphones, developed in wartime for locating enemy artillery, can pick up the waves accurately and record their direction and time of arrival on paper tapes...