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...consequence of the increased leukemia, bone cancer, genetic abnormalities and other maladies. Such deaths would constitute a minor addition to those now cause by background radiation, but there appears to be a fair consensus among American cancer ticists and others which can be summarized that for every ten fission yield of tests (which be more than ten megatons of power) an estimated 100,00 sons now living would have the shortened and another 100,000 yet to be born would be . Much of the evidence this statement is collected two volume 1957 hearings on Nature of Radioactive Fall-Our Effect...
...Russians demonstrated spectacular improvement in their weight-yield performance-on which the superiority of U.S. nuclear technology largely rested. U.S. experts believe that the Soviets have passed the U.S. in the large-yield weapons field, caught up with it in the medium-yield field, and are closing the gap in the low-yield range. This gives the Russians great military flexibility and enables them to place more powerful warheads on smaller missiles. The top Russian test blast of 58 megatons would have yielded 100 megatons if it had not been encased in a lead jacket, and U.S. experts estimate that...
Then will man, the most sophisticated predator the world has ever known, yield to his instincts and gain the dubious distinction of being the first species in history to exterminate itself? Ardrey is not sure. He observes that among social animals survival of the species is a stronger instinct than survival of the individual. But he also notes that in human wars, this tendency manifests itself in intense patriotism and correspondingly intense hatred of one's enemies, generally buttressed by the conviction that God is on our side. As he wryly comments, "God is never so fashionable as during wartime...
From Peking to Prague, Communism's chronic farm problem regularly produces a bumper crop of discontent. The outstanding exception is Poland, which last year enjoyed the best harvest in its history, doubled a projected 4% increase in gross agricultural production. Compared with 1960, the yield per acre of corn jumped from 204 bushels...
...biggest Soviet blast produced nearly 60 megatons-and it could easily have gone well over 100 megatons if the Russians had not muffled the explosion by encasing the bomb in lead instead of raw uranium. More important, they made vast improvements in the vital weight-yield ratios of their nuclear weapons. The tests opened the way for the Russians to develop nuclear warheads for their missiles that will be much more powerful than the warhead on the Titan II, the biggest U.S. missile, which has a punch of less than 10 megatons. The Russians also developed fission triggers for their...