Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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These Americans last week did their bit to make the U.S. the kind of place...
Behind the low-rolling smoke of battle in Korea looms the most terrifying of all war clouds: the topless mushroom of the atomic bomb. Will the Russians make an atom-bomb attack on the U.S.? If it comes, what is the defense? Is there any defense? Last week the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense issued a 456-page volume, The Effects of Atomic Weapons* which gives the first official answers to some of these questions. In it are the ABCs of atomic disaster which every civil-defense planner-and every dweller in a target area-should know...
...zero will be destroyed or irreparably damaged by the blast, the heat, or by fires started by the heat. Within the next mile, countless fires will be started by the heat radiation. As many fires will be started by broken gas lines, electrical short circuits. Broken water lines will make fire-fighting almost impossible...
...knows, no. AEC has calculated that to make the world uninhabitable by making its surface radioactive would take 755,000 Hiroshima-type bombs - and nobody has anywhere near that many, or is likely...
...night the Reds attacked steadily from dusk until dawn. "They don't make sense," said Davis. "We kill 'em and kill 'em and they still keep coming. We captured one that night and he was drunk. They must all be drunk...