Nuclear Shadowboxing: Contemporary Threats from Cold War Weaponry; Volume 1: Cold War Redux, Volume 1DeVolpi, Inc., 2004 - 500 pages |
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... kiloton is the explosive strength corresponding to 1000 metric tons - 2205 pounds - of TNT . ) Although both of the original atomic bombs weighed nearly 5 metric tons ( 10,000 pounds ) each , the enriched uranium - 235 in the Little Boy ...
... kiloton is the explosive strength corresponding to 1000 metric tons - 2205 pounds - of TNT . ) Although both of the original atomic bombs weighed nearly 5 metric tons ( 10,000 pounds ) each , the enriched uranium - 235 in the Little Boy ...
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... kiloton single - stage fusion- boosted fission explosive ) Castle Bravo test of 12 - ton lithium- deuteride device ( yield of 15 megatons ) at Bikini Atoll 1 Mar. 1954 First British hydrogen - bomb test 15 May 1957 President Dwight ...
... kiloton single - stage fusion- boosted fission explosive ) Castle Bravo test of 12 - ton lithium- deuteride device ( yield of 15 megatons ) at Bikini Atoll 1 Mar. 1954 First British hydrogen - bomb test 15 May 1957 President Dwight ...
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... kiloton warheads , sufficiently dispersed , do the same damage as a single 1000 - kiloton weapon ( more bang for the buck ) . The damage caused by just one of these warheads is enough to destroy a small city : For comparison , the ...
... kiloton warheads , sufficiently dispersed , do the same damage as a single 1000 - kiloton weapon ( more bang for the buck ) . The damage caused by just one of these warheads is enough to destroy a small city : For comparison , the ...
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... kiloton yield to be installed on each of 16 missiles . Thus every submarine of that class could carry up to 224 deliverable warheads plenty to devastate a large nation . The operating procedure has been as follows : Each missile , after ...
... kiloton yield to be installed on each of 16 missiles . Thus every submarine of that class could carry up to 224 deliverable warheads plenty to devastate a large nation . The operating procedure has been as follows : Each missile , after ...
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Page 43 - In the councils of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Page 102 - Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.
Page 98 - Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Page 46 - Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.
Page 44 - We have gone on piling weapon upon weapon, missile upon missile, new levels of destructiveness upon old ones. We have done this helplessly, almost involuntarily: like the victims of some sort of hypnotism, like men in a dream, like lemmings heading for the sea, like the children of Hamlin marching blindly along behind their Pied Piper.