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University Daily Kansan Thursday. October 19. 1961
The Big Bomb
By Sam S. Roberts United Press International
Fifty million tons of TNT—2,500 times more powerful than the bombs that decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Twice as powerful as any weapon in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Some time during the next two weeks Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has promised the Soviet Union will detonate such a nuclear weapon—the most powerful man-made explosion in history.
Experts discount the military value of the high yield weapons, both the 50 megaton device Khrushchev plans to explode and the 100 megaton weapon he claims the Russians have built. But whatever their military value, the destructive capabilities of these bombs are nearly beyond imagination.
Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, an authority on atomic weapons, says a 50 megaton weapon would dig a hole 400 feet deep and a mile and one-half wide. The loss in human lives would be impossible to estimate.
New York Would be Rubble
If New York City were its target, Manhattan Island would be split in half with the Hudson and the East Rivers pouring into the divide, flooding the rubble that had been the mid-town area.
If a 50-megaton bomb fell on the White House in Washington, the hole would swallow most of the federal buildings, the capitol, and the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials and the Washington Monument.
Dropped on the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, it would destroy all those and the Pentagon too, under Lapp's formula.
Chicago residents, from Oak Park to Evanston would probably be wiped out by such a bomb dropped on the Loop. Much of the southside would be destroyed and tidal waves in Lake Michigan caused by the blast could hit nearby steel-producing Gary, Ind.
Most of San Francisco would be destroyed in a holocaust rivaling the 1906 earthquake and fire. If the explosion occurred over Union Square, it would level Nob Hill, fisherman's wharf, the plush apartments of Russian hill and skid row in the lower mission district.
Disaster for Downtown Dallas
An impact at the Southland Building, the tallest building west of the Mississippi, would wipe out downtown Dallas. A heavily populated residential area, Southern Methodist University, and the Cotton Bowl would be gone. If the blast occurred farther to the northwest, the Dallas aircraft industry would be destroyed.
Fifty megatons on the heart of Atlanta would decimate most of the city, including the historic residential districts. Business and industrial areas would be destroyed.
The Truman Library in Independence, Mo., would be destroyed by a 50 megaton weapon dropped just east of Kansas City. Downtown Kansas City including the Liberty Memorial, dedicated after World War I, the Municipal Airport and Union Station would be demolished.
The Latest in Fallout Shelters
The fellow that owns his home is always just coming out of a hardware store—Kin Hubbard
G. E. Kidder Smith, New York architect, will lecture Nov. 6 and 7 at the University of Kansas on the new churches of Europe.
He will speak at 4 p.m. Nov. 6 and at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7 in 303 Bailey. The lectures are open to the public.
NY Architect to Speak on Churches
Smith has written on the contemporary architecture of 23 countries. He is the author of "The New Architecture of Europe," his most recent book, and is the co-author of "Italy Builds," "Sweden Builds," and "Brazil Builds."
An authority on religious architecture, he wrote the section on that subject in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He is a member of the Commission on Architecture and the General Commission of the National Council of Churches.
A recipient of undergraduate and master's degrees from Princeton, he has taught at Yale and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
has lectured throughout the United States and West Europe. He has held American-Scandinavian Foundation, Guggenheim, Brown University, Fulbright Research and A.W. Erunner fellowships.
His visit to KU is being sponsored by the department of architecture and architectural engineering in the School of Engineering.
Internationals to View Film
The International Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch Auditorium for the showing of "Hiroshima, Mon Amour." Following the film refreshments will be served in the Kansas Union.
All students interested in the International Club trip to Mexico during Christmas vacation should contact Peter Ling, vice president of the club.
He dwells nowhere who dwells everywhere.—Martial
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