Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some areas, special equipment is necessary. Underground shelters in New Orleans, because of the city's high water table, should be watertight or equipped with water pumps. Since a nuclear blast would almost certainly wreck the Mississippi River levees and flood the city, "coning towers," to assure ventilation above the floodline (and also periscope surveillance of the outside) are standard features of New Orleans shelters...
...hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
...poisoned atmosphere of the current session, the task seems impossible. Yet the U.N. must feel, as Hammarskjold did in a meditative mood several crises ago, when he quoted Shelley: that one should "hope 'til hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
...bomb was a big break for the Russians because H-bomb ingredients (deuterium, lithium, etc.) are comparatively cheap and easy to get. Chances are that the Russians have turned most of their plutonium and U-235 into detonators for H-bombs. This should give them enough nuclear explosives to wreck or poison most of the earth...
...strike at Soviet centers from close-in European and Asian bases. The 6-523 and 6-473 of the Strategic Air Command are poised to make a massed attack across most Soviet borders. Many of them can surely get through, and a single 6-52 carries enough explosive to wreck any city on earth...