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...megaton giant tamped down by a casing of lead. The U.S.S.R. could hang this on its biggest operational missile and hurl the full 100 megatons across 3,500 miles to the U.S. The Russians had made great gains in putting a bigger punch into a smaller package (weight-yield ratio), thus could increase either the range or power of existing weapons systems. They had approached perfection in a clean bomb. (In some of their blasts, the fission trigger-which is the main source of a bomb's radioactivity-formed only 2% of the explosive yield.) They were able...
...This is the language of responsibility." They handed down to the 20th century a lean, taut prose that reflected a cooler, grimmer appraisal of life. "I believe that force is the ultima ratio" wrote Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who fought in the war for three years and was almost killed, "and between two groups that want to make inconsistent kinds of world I see no remedy except force." After weaving his way through these Civil War writings, on which he has worked for nearly 15 years. Critic Wilson seems to take a view of the war as bleak as Holmes...
...Development tests of new weapons. Ogle's scientists will be trying to improve the vital weight-yield ratio-a bigger blast from a smaller package. Special attention will be paid to the nuclear warhead of the Nike Zeus, the missile being developed by the Army to intercept enemy warheads as they hurtle down on the U.S. To find out how the blast of a Nike Zeus will affect a missile at high altitudes, the scientists will make at least one test of the weapon on the warhead of an Atlas, one of the prime missiles in the U.S. arsenal...
...board members so far counted (statistically enough to establish thetrend), 55.2% oppose general aid, 30.6% are for it, the rest are undecided or uninterested. In the West, which least favors aid, the ratio is 65% to 22%. Even in the South, which most favors aid, opponents are in the majority by 42% t032...
...Terrence Murphy '63 cautioned that the Metropolitan State Hospital program involves a one-one volunteer-patient ratio, while at Fernard volunteers will work in a three-to-one ratio. Murphy decided that case-aid would be too intimate a relationship for a pilot program, particularly one which will be seen interrupted by summer vacation...