Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expert in Vancouver. Working with information from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the U.S. Office of the Surgeon General, Eccles built the shelter in ten days, and says it is "calculated to afford protection against blast, flash and gamma radiation within a reasonable distance of ground zero of an atomic bomb burst." Although Eccles does not plan to go into the business, he is willing to make his specifications available to contractors if the government approves Mrs. MacDonald's shelter. Eccles thinks similar shelters could be mass-constructed in Canada for about $500 each...
...assumed a wild new relationship. The propeller of the right inboard engine burst from its hub, tore through the upper fuselage with a thunderous bang. The lights went out. The passengers, half deafened as the air rushed from the cabin, were assailed by a sub-zero gale which flung back hot oil and clattering chunks of metal. The wounded, overspeeded engine howled and shook off its mount. The right wing dipped suddenly...
...headed east through the long twilight of the 55th parallel-which also crosses Moscow-over the frosted spikes of southern Alaska, and rumbled southward to bore through the storms that lay down the spine of the Rockies. At 2 a.m., in the cold, sub-zero blackness eight miles above the earth, she found the telltale bend in the Missouri River on her radar, opened her bomb bays, and sent-not a bomb, but a long flash on her radio...
...After a high (2,000-ft.) air burst, lingering radioactivity will not be serious. Rescue workers will be able to enter the ground-zero area a few minutes after the blast, with only the simplest precautions...
...what happened when several hundred trapped Reds stormed two U.S. artillery batteries. "In action of a type seldom seen outside American Civil War prints, the artillerymen leveled their 105-mm. howitzers at enemy troops which at times penetrated within a hundred yards of the guns. With fuses set at zero, the artillerymen were using Charge 7-the maximum powder charge a 105 will take. Charge 7 is almost as rough on the guns as it was today on the Reds." Three out of the batteries' four guns were burned out, but the Reds failed to take them...