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...bomb explosions in mid-Pacific last year were awesome proof of how big the atom can blow. The 14 test shots at Yucca Flat, Nev., programmed between Feb. 1 and this week, are equally sensational proof of how small the weapon can get-small enough to fit the conventional artillery pieces, bomb racks, torpedo tubes and antiaircraft rifles of the U.S. armed forces and provide them with a jump in firepower as revolutionary as the introduction of gunpowder...
...Adam Gimbel and Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra. Damon Runyon Theater (Sat. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Broderick Crawford in Dancing Dan's Christmas. General Electric Theater (Sun 9 p.m., CBS). The Windmill, with James Stewart. A-Bomb Test Blast (Tues., 8 a.m.. CBS and NBC). On-the-spot (Yucca Flat, Nev.) radio-TV coverage. Bob Hope (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC). With Lloyd Nolan, French Songstress Line Renaud...
...closes a switch and power is fed to cameras, test instruments and power plants. Red and green lights on the control panel trace the action from sequence to sequence. Nothing is left to human error. Even the voice that intones the final count over the loudspeakers on Yucca Flat has been recorded on a tape that cannot blow its lines from human emotion. Electric current travels a full 15 minutes through a maze of relays, switches, condensers, coils, filaments and generators. There are safety checks along the way, fuses and other devices that can take back Dr. Graves' decision...
...booklet describes FCDA's sketchy tests held last spring at Yucca Flat, Nevada (TIME, March 30). Two "typical" frame houses, densely populated with department-store dummies, were exposed to the heat, radiation and blast of an AEC "nuclear diagnostic device" on a 300-ft. tower. In their basements and dug into nearby desert were various shelters, also inhabited by dummies...
...first of the day's two great demonstrations of atomic progress (the second: announcement of a breeder reactor-see SCIENCE), the explosion at Yucca Flat was caused by the most powerful A-bomb ever set off in the U.S. With an estimated explosive force of 40,000 tons of T.N.T., the bomb produced an initial flash of unusual length (more than five seconds), which suggested that U.S. scientists had either changed the fissionable materials used or had discovered a new and probably more efficient method of detonation...