Top scientists have warned that an area hit by an atomic missile of massive power would be engulfed in a suffocating fire storm which would persist for a long time.

The Hep Stars got their breakthrough in March 1965 with their massive hit " Cadillac ", eventually becoming the most celebrated of the Swedish 1960s pop bands.

Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release this duet and he complied with her wishes ; the following year, he re-recorded a version with British-born model and actress Jane Birkin, which became a massive hit all over Europe.

Since Lowell astronomers thought Pluto was massive enough to perturb planets, they assumed that it should have an albedo of 0. 07 ( meaning that it reflected only 7 % of the light that hit it ); about as dark as asphalt and similar to that of Mercury, the least reflective planet known.

During April 2009, U. S. Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen discussed these paradoxes: " Once this massive credit crunch hit, it didn ’ t take long before we were in a recession.

Since the out break of the Syrian civil war, the Syrian economy has been hit by massive economic sanctions restricting trade with the Arab League, Australia, Canada, the European Union, ( as well as the European countries of Albania, Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, and Switzerland ) Georgia, Japan, Turkey, and the United States.

The massive bombing also hit a number of prisons and directly killed a number of allied war prisoners.

While experiencing a political storm, China was also hit with a massive natural disaster — the Tangshan Earthquake, officially recorded at magnitude 7. 8 on the Richter Scale, authorities refused large amounts of foreign aid.

On April 27, 2011, Tuscaloosa was hit by a half-mile ( 800 m ) wide tornado that resulted in at least 41 deaths, over 1000 injuries, and massive devastation.

On April 27, 2011, Tuscaloosa was hit by a wide EF4 tornado that resulted in 64 deaths, over 1500 injuries, and massive devastation.

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast with high winds, heavy rains and a storm surge, causing massive damage to the area.

Mount Laurel was a small, poor rural farming community until it was hit with massive suburban growth from Philadelphia in the latter 1900s.

Shenandoah's downtown was hit by a massive fire on May 23, 2006.

Aided by a memorable and well received video by John Maybury which consisted almost solely of O ' Connor's face as she performed the song, it became a massive international hit, reaching # 1 in several countries.

Mike ( Michael Simpson ) and King Gizmo ( John King ), famous for their sample-based music in the 1980s and 1990s, and specifically for their work on the albums Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, Odelay by Beck, the soundtrack to the film Fight Club and the massive 1997 hit " MMMBop " by Hanson.

For example, the Comfort departed Baltimore for Haiti on January 16, 2010, to provide relief to victims of the country's massive earthquake four days after it hit.

The song turned out to be a massive hit and his next release cut at the same session, " Oooh, Oooh, Oooh " a much smaller one.

In 1981, Robinson achieved a massive hit with another ballad, " Being with You ", which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number-one in the UK, becoming his most successful single to date.

The track was taken from the film soundtrack to Electric Dreams and became a massive hit.

1956 also saw the massive international hit " Jean and Dinah " by Mighty Sparrow.

This instrumental was a massive hit and launched Pablo's solo career.

The Crazy Frog ringtone, which was a cult hit in Europe in 2004, was released as a mashup with Axel F in June 2005 amid a massive publicity campaign and subsequently hit # 1 on the UK charts.

The downside to this approach was that the mask cut off the vast majority of the beam energy, allowing it to hit the screen only 15 % of the time, requiring a massive increase in beam power to produce acceptable image brightness.

The album spawned two massive hit singles, " Excuse Me Miss " and "' 03 Bonnie & Clyde ", which featured Jay-Z's future wife Beyoncé Knowles.

Blue Throat was slumped with his back against the bar, elbows supporting his massive frame.

It began in the morning, and very quickly the hemorrhage was a massive one.

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

He was freshly shaved, and if there had been any alcohol in him we could never have missed detecting some scent of it on the massive gusts of his laughter.

There was no confirmation of such massive assaults from independent sources.

all over the country a massive shield of prayer was thrown around him.

Once this was over, a massive development cooperation in the field of health and education brought in numerous civil personnel from Cuba.

In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan ( now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25, 000 people.

Economic requirements triumphed over environmental considerations when the Soviet-era Nairit plant was reopened in January 1992 after being closed in 1989 because of the massive air pollution it caused.

As a tyrannosaurid, Albertosaurus was a bipedal predator with tiny, two-fingered hands and a massive head with dozens of large, sharp teeth.

The massive skull of Albertosaurus, perched on a short, S-shaped neck, was approximately 1 metre ( 3. 3 ft ) long in the largest adults.

He knew little about the technical details of the space program, and was put off by the massive financial commitment required by a manned Moon landing.

The site was abandoned soon after the city's massive walls were constructed, its temple rebuilt and its grain production reorganised.

Soon after the palace was constructed, a Cyclopean massive circuit wall was built, 760 meters long, up to 10 meters high, and ranging from 3. 5 to 6 meters thick.

This massive text, which Roger Bacon would later sarcastically describe as weighing as much as a horse, was unfinished at his death ; his students, William of Middleton and John of Rupella, were charged with its completion.

The town changed very little over the years, until 1968 when the large scale mining of kaolin, bauxitic kaolin, and bauxite was begun by Mulcoa, Mullite Company of America, which turned of scrub oak wilderness into a massive mining and refining operation.

The strategic position, to wit the high bank of the Waal — which offered an unimpeded view far into Germania Transrhenana ( Germania Beyond the Rhine )— was recognized first by Drusus, who built a massive fortress ( castra ) and a headquarters ( praetorium ) in imperial style.

A further massive transfer of Bastarnae was carried out by emperor Diocletian ( ruled 284-305 ) after he and his colleague Galerius defeated a coalition of Bastarnae and Carpi in 299.

Nelson's plan, shaped through discussion with his senior captains during the return voyage to Alexandria, was to advance on the French and pass down the seaward side of the van and centre of the French line, so that each French ship would face two British ships and the massive Orient would be fighting against three.

At 22: 00 the fire reached the magazines and the Orient was almost completely destroyed by a massive explosion.

The idea of a body so massive that even light could not escape was first put forward by geologist John Michell in a letter written to Henry Cavendish in 1783 of the Royal Society:

He later developed plans for massive, independent tank operations, which he claimed was subsequently studied by the German military.

Guderian's leadership was supported, fostered and institutionalized by his supporters in the Reichswehr General Staff system, which worked the Army to greater and greater levels of capability through massive and systematic Movement Warfare war games in the 1930s.

In the non-USSR annexed portion of Poland, less than a third of Poland's population voted in favor of massive communist land reforms and industry nationalizations in a policies referendum known as " 3 times YES " ( 3 razy TAK ; 3xTAK ), whereupon a second vote rigged election was held to get the desired result.