Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trenches. If they were tense and nervous, they had reason. Never before had willing men waited so near the site of an imminent atomic explosion. Only two miles away, an A-bomb (officially called a "Nuclear Diagnostic Device") was perched on a tall steel tower, 300 feet above "Ground Zero...
...Promptly at 5:20 a.m., in pre-dawn darkness, observers stared at nothing through their heavy protective goggles and listened to the ominous "Count Down." "Zero minus five seconds," chanted the loudspeaker, "four three, two, one, zero." There was a searing flash of light and heat like the rising of a new sun. Then a dirty orange fireball rose lazily over the desert. Now visible were the high-climbing, vertical trails left by the rockets set off to measure the passage of the shock wave (see opposite page). Almost half a minute later, the shock wave itself roared...
...radioactive cloud drifted eastward. A thick, dense column of dust reached into the sky behind it; below, a flat lake dust covered vast acres of desert. An hour passed before Army helicopters brought surprisingly chipper G.I.s from the trenches. Only two miles from Ground Zero, heat and light had passed over them as they crouched face down. The grey dust cloud they saw later, they were told was not dangerously radioactive. They had learned the lesson that atom bombs may spare careful soldiers who keep their distance and are well...
Some time within the next hundred years, the hottest spot in North America (California's Death Valley) will swelter at a temperature of 130° F. In northern Montana, at least once during the next century, thermometers will register a numbing 64° below zero...
...sunk $10 million of his own money into the airline, and Equitable Life had risked $40 million trying to bail it out. Under empire-minded Jack Frye, T.W.A. had expanded too fast, and piled up debts; retrenchment had trimmed its employees from 17,000 to 12,000. Morale was zero. Damon helped restore it by assuring the survivors that he carried no ax. Said he: "I'll judge everything by three standards: 1) how good a job is done, 2) how much it costs, and 3) how it helps the overall harmony." Knowing the tendency of departments to expand...