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Actually, Goldwater's estimate had some basis in fact-as far as it went. Goldwater figures that the U.S. Strategic Air Command's estimated 1,080 first-line bombers can carry 24-mega-ton bombs, or, 25,920 megatons of destructive power. He places total megaton capability of U.S. missiles at 2,650. Goldwater assumes that all but about 50 of the SAC planes will have been phased out by the mid-'70s. From Pentagon announcements, furthermore, Goldwater researchers place the mid-'70s missile force at 1,000 Minuteman and 656 Polaris missiles, each capable...
When that great mega-megalopolitan day comes, will those cities and their transported citizens be ready for it? Obviously, the answer is no-unless they prepare for it now. A few of the states are spending millions just to survey future needs, but the effort will not help much unless it is coordinated...
...Weather Bureau, feel sure that the 1962 fallout will probably equal or exceed the 1959 peak, but they are not alarmed. The fission energy yield of the Soviet 1958 tests was 10 to 15 megatons. The total energy of last fall's Soviet tests was much greater (170 mega tons), but most of it came from nuclear fusion, which creates little fallout. Only about 25 megatons came from nuclear fission of uranium or plutonium, and since many of the Russian tests were exploded at high altitudes, their dangerous fission products will presumably stay aloft for longer periods of time...
There isn't much room left in New York City. It is no longer a metropolis (from the Greek for "crowded")--it is the center of a megalopolis (from the Greek mega, "impossibly over-crowded"). Traffic conditions are partially responsible for the city's slow death by strangulation, and in recent weeks, people who have been saying so all along have been heartened by the intelligence and energy of the City's new Traffic Commissioner, Henry A. Barnes...
...Eastern daylight saving time. Receiving stations at more than half a dozen colleges and universities have been arranged to pick up the University Hall celebration and distribute it over their campus networks. East of Pittsburgh the program can be tuned in at 6:04 megacycles, and at 11:79 mega-cycles in the West...