Word: levels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illusions about the difficulties of operating an all-seeing international eye. Commenting on the CIA assignment, before he took it, he said: "American people expect you to be on a communing level with God and Joe Stalin and I'm not sure they are so much interested in God. They expect you to be able to say that a war will start next Tuesday...
...were now being lured back by fat dividends (which were averaging 8% more than last year's), the prospects for a continuing business boom, and the likelihood of more inflation (see below). As Wall Street saw it, stocks which would rise in price with the general U.S. price level were the best hedge against inflation...
...bomb exploded at ground level would expend much of its energy in digging a crater. Thus the destruction, although more devastating around the detonation point, would be limited to a smaller area than in the case of an air burst. A bomb exploded under water would also lose some of its blast effect, but would throw up an immense column of radioactive water, to contaminate everything on which it fell...
...burst at ground level, or near it, might result if a bomb dropped from the air failed to detonate at the most effective height. Then everything covered by the bomb's ball of fire (900 feet across) would be fused or vaporized. Outward from the center would be circles of death and damage exactly like those of an air burst, but smaller. Radioactive dust, from pulverized buildings, would be an added menace for those in the path of the wind. The central crater (as at Alamogordo) would be a no man's land for months, perhaps indefinitely, because...
Effective shelters can be built inside most buildings, or below ground level, with foot-thick reinforced concrete. Outside shelters should be at least partly buried, and well away from buildings which might catch fire. Doors are not needed on shelters, but two entrances are necessary, each with a turn or baffle to stop the bomb's direct heat rays and much of its radiation. For a few cities, subways offer ready-made shelters...