ATOMIC and volcanic power

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27407, 21 July 1954, Page 3

ATOMIC and volcanic power

Mount K?ak aS t M ° Unt where I ft a^S’ (i wlth the bomb placed P ower._Your O s^etc.y Se *‘ S maximum Ashburton, July 18, 1954. J ' E - N -

Dhvsics C at^o a^u ye u t ’ senior lecturer in lege nterbu jy University Colton f one , of th e recent hydrogen bombs completely destroyed a small island in the Pacific. This was very roughly comparable with the sort a vo’ r of ‘ hat might be ejected wifl? a voicamc eruption. They were not however, strictly comparable, because ‘^° re ‘ lcaU y there was no limit to the ?“a U hvri?L mat l er t hat could be u^d bomb , bo . mb ’ and because the Domb was instantaneous., whereas the volcano was usually a s™ es of explosions or eruptions 1