Word: blowing
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...plan assumes that the U.S. will suffer the first blow in any major nuclear war. It counts on the expectation that the nation will not only survive the first onslaught but will have the military strength to launch a massive counter-strike and the morale to get the nation back on its feet. Yet, despite the urgent recommendations of the Gaither report, the Rockefeller defense report (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958) and most civil-defense experts, not a single city or state in the nation has a realistic nuclear-bomb shelter system-a system that on a national scale could save...
Hurricane Cindy, which poohed out last week on the South Carolina coast, was not much of a storm, but it left the U.S. Weather Bureau's hurricane forecasters in a state of mild exaltation. Well before Cindy hit the coast, they predicted that she would be a mild blow and advised Carolinians to relax. The dead-accurate forecast saved untold time, effort and money, and to meteorologists, it was one more bit of evidence of how far their inexact science has advanced. In 1935 the Weather Bureau duly warned that a hurricane was approaching the Florida Keys. It could...
...refrigeration system) the entire stock of liquid hydrogen can be dumped through a pipe down a canyon and into a spherical tank. If all precautions fail, a hydrogen explosion may not wreck the whole apparatus. The top of the building is made of mint green plastic, is designed to blow off easily, allowing the blast to spend its force in empty...
Balance or Blow. The engine is simple enough-in nuclear theory: a high-power density reactor (lots of power from a small volume) honeycombed with channels through which a large amount of hydrogen gas can be blown. The hydrogen cools the reactor, keeps it from melting or vaporizing. At the same time, the hydro gen is heated to a temperature (about 2,000°-3,000° C.) just below that of the reactor, expands enormously, and blows out of the nozzle in a high-speed jet. Hydrogen is essential because its molecules are the smallest known, and the smaller...
...heat-resistant metals such as tungsten, tantalum and molybdenum. Control is far more difficult than with chemical engines, because the flow of hydrogen must be balanced perfectly against the production of energy by the reactor. A slight maladjustment of the controls might melt the nuclear engine in seconds or blow it to smithereens...