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Overpressure is the number of pounds per square inch (p.s.i.) above normal atmospheric pressure exerted by the blast wave of a nuclear explosion. An overpressure exceeding 20 p.s.i. can be fatal to a human being...
...Medical School research team has developed a pump which restores blood to the stricken area of the heart after an otherwise fatal attack...
Unexpected War. The events surrounding Hammarskjold's fatal flight to Ndola were nearly as bizarre as the Congo political scene itself. From the Congolese capital of Leopoldville, Hammarskjold had watched in agony for four days as the fighting in Katanga grew worse. The U.N. force was stymied, and there was growing danger that the left-wing army of Congolese Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga might invade Katanga and start in earnest the civil war Hammarskjold had acted to avoid...
Meanwhile, details of Menderes' execution slowly became known, in spite of Turkish censorship. Brought back from a near-fatal suicide attempt, the former Premier was hanged as soon as he was declared fit by prison doctors. Apologizing for the "trouble" he had caused his jailers, Menderes was taken aboard a Turkish navy gunboat from the island of Yassiada, where the eleven-month trial had been held, to the prison island of Imrali, where Polatkan and Zorlu had been hanged 36 hours before. Aboard the gunboat Menderes asked permission to make the namaz (ablutions and prayers), later did not remonstrate...
...Oppenheimer scheme of things, soldiers, unlike scientists, apparently do not enjoy the right to leave political decisions to their governments. Said Oppenheimer: "I would like to see a general strike by the officers of all the armed forces on earth, refusing to drop nuclear bombs or to push the fatal buttons...