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...Shock-haired, baggy-trousered British Poet Stephen Spender was also off on a nostalgia jag. "Science has provided man with the means ... of complete destruction," he told a Harvard poetry conference. "What has always been the essential condition for creating poetry-the assurance of a continuity in civilization-is lost...
...shock wave rushes out like a solid steel wall. At some points it is joined by a reflected wave. The two combine to apply redoubled pressure (called the "Mach front"). Behind the shock wave comes a great wind, at a speed of 800 m.p.h. A mile from "ground zero" (the point directly under the burst), the speed of the wind drops to 200 m.p.h.; 1½ miles away, to 100 m.p.h. Behind the wind comes a partial vacuum, which acts like another wind coming from the opposite direction. Three miles away, the shock wave, wind and vacuum begin to peter...
...bomb smuggled in aboard ship might be set to explode under water at about the same time as one dropped from the air. Its shock wave traveling through the water would crush the hulls of ships in port. A million tons of radioactive water thrown into the air would smash nearby piers and warehouses, splash on others farther away, making them unapproachable for weeks or months. A wind-borne mist laden with deadly radioactive particles would threaten survivors to leeward...
...Gamma radiation travels with the speed of light and is gone instantly. Heat radiation lasts as long as three seconds (which may be time enough to duck into a doorway or sprint a couple of steps around a corner). The blast or shock wave races a mile in five seconds. After an air burst, stay where you are for at least a minute, and watch out for falling debris. After an underwater burst, the danger from radioactive mist may last for several hours...
...Australian Davis Cup team got a rude shock when Sweden's big, blond Lennart Bergelin beat Frank Sedgman and veteran Jack Bromwich in two of the four singles matches. After his second victory, proud Swedes piled out of the stands to treat Bergelin to an old Swedish hissa (a toss in the air). Then the Aussies settled down and won the deciding match. Their next opponent...