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...Industrial Research Institute. Working under Colonel Victor C. Huffsmith, the project's scientists have laid out a rough cross with 100-mile arms on the flat plains of eastern Colorado. Spaced 20 miles apart on the arms are detonation points where the explosion of 200-lb. charges of TNT will send powerful sound waves into the sky. At points on a circle 160 miles from the center of the cross, complicated sets of microphones mounted on two trucks will listen for the waves when they return to earth...
...midnight, in absolute silence, under chilly, low-hanging skies that blotted out the stars, the Mansfield cautiously worked in toward shore. On the destroyer's quarterdeck ten men-four marines, four bluejackets and two officers-checked their weapons and adjusted packs crammed with TNT. Some carried Tommy guns, others carbines. Each man had a knife dangling on his pistol belt. A few wore sneakers. The men shifted their feet uneasily as they watched a small whaleboat being lowered into the water...
...white powder with one and a half times the blasting force of TNT. It was invented by the Germans in 1899, but had been considered too expensive for military use until the U.S. found a way, used it in naval torpedoes and bazooka anti-tank rockets...
...another slowly, they begin to react before they are fully in contact. The heat developed drives them apart prematurely, and the reaction stops. In the bomb described in the Smyth Report, the masses were driven together, probably in millionths of a second, by some such "low-order explosive" as TNT. Even if the Russians did not do as well as U.S. scientists, their less efficient bomb would still produce an "atomic explosion...
...Tennessee Valley Authority had to touch off 681 tons of TNT before Lect's instruments could feel it, though. The blast ripped out one side of a mountain to supply crushed rock for a TVA dam. Present seismographs, says Leet, have never recorded an atom bomb explosion...