Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wreckage at Zero. The effect would be strongest at "zero": directly under the burst. The AEC's own building, a solid modern structure with four thick concrete floors, would be completely wrecked, and 80% of the people in the building would be immediate blast casualties; others would die later from radiation. Windows and partitions would be hurled about as missiles. More fragile buildings like the White House would be crushed like cardboard...
...blast and fiery wind spreading out from zero would strip the walls and partitions from reinforced concrete buildings half a mile away. For another half mile, steel-frame buildings of the factory type would be wrecked. Even at a radius 1½ miles from zero, the brick walls of houses would be blown down. Many people spared by the blast and the flying rubble within the three-mile diameter of the seared circle would be killed or injured by the flash of heat and radiation...
Germany Year Zero. Roberto Rossellini's grim, graphic story of a twelve-year-old boy among the human rubble of Germany's occupation (TIME, Sept...
...Pesth Fool and easing him out of his assistantship. The remaining years of his life were marked by almost incredible persecution. As director of obstetrics in the miserable, tenth-rate Pesth General Hospital, Semmelweis, working day & night to oversee his prophylaxis, finally managed to cut childbed fever mortality to zero. But his assistants sneered at him and his superiors refused to give him or his theories any credit. When his book, The Etiology, the Concept, and the Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever, met with derision, his mind snapped...
Germany Year Zero. Roberto Rossellini's grim, graphic story of a twelve-year-old boy among the human rubble of Germany's occupation (TIME, Sept...