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 book Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen, based on interviews with scientists and engineers who worked in Area 51, dismisses the alien story.

Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, the group's popularity continued to grow ( although they were always more popular in North America and Continental Europe than in their home country, never achieving a UK Top 40 single or Top 20 album ).

Subsequently the Dixie Chicks made it a mainstay of their Top of the World, Vote for Change, and Accidents & Accusations Tours.

Potter and Warne may have hoped that Hill Top Farm would be their holiday home, but after Warne's death Potter went ahead with its purchase as she had always wanted to own that farm and live in " that charming village ".

By the late 1920s Potter and her Hill Top farm manager Tom Storey had made a name for their prize-winning Herdwick flock.

However, in a 2005 poll by British film magazine Empire, Braveheart was # 1 on their list of " The Top 10 Worst Best Pictures ".

About. com ranked him # 9 on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time, while The Source ranked him # 12 on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time.

That move was hinted at in their 1976 Top Ten hits " Sweet Love " and " Just to Be Close to You.

" In 1977 the Commodores scored a ballad hit with " Easy ", which became the group's biggest hit yet, reaching No. 4 in the U. S., followed by the funky favorite " Brick House ", also Top 5, both from their landmark album " The Commodores ", as was the utopian album favorite " Zoom ".

The group had no major hits in 1980, but by 1981 they released two Top Ten hits with " Oh No " (# 4 U. S .) and their first upbeat single in almost five years, " Lady ( You Bring Me Up )" (# 8 U. S .)

A reworking of the early track " More Beats + Pieces " gave them their first UK Top 40 hit since 1989 in August.

Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".

It was named # 37 overall among the " 150 Best Games of All Time " by Computer Gaming World Magazine ( 15th Anniversary Issue — November 1996 ), was voted # 13 overall in PC Gamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll ( April 2000 issue ), the editors of PC Gamer ranked it # 12 in the Top 50 Games of all time, in their October 2001 issue, citing the game's humor and pop-culture references and it was ranked # 15 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.

In 2008, New York City radio station Q104. 3 FM WAXQ named Don McLean's " American Pie " number 37 in their 2008 Top 1, 043 Songs Of All Time listener-generated countdown.

Devo gained a new level of visibility with 1980's Freedom of Choice which included their best-known hit, " Whip It ", which immediately became a Top 40 hit.

In May 2001, NBC began using " Only Time " to accompany commercials for their television series Friends, which helped the song top the Adult Contemporary and Adult Top 40 charts.

This effort is supported by the Top Gun Program enabling HP Enterprise Services technical personnel to dedicate 3 months of their time on joint projects with the Agility Alliance partner on a key technology problem, to create an innovative customer solution.

The first single of the album, " Can't Get It Out of My Head ", became their first US Billboard charts Top 10 hit, and Eldorado, A Symphony became ELO's first gold album.

Entertainment Weekly ranked the film # 19 on their list of " The Top 50 Cult Films ".

* 1942 – World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.

Entertainment Weekly ranked the film # 4 on their list of “ The Top 50 Cult Films .”

With 46 points awarded by the jury and 36 % of the public vote " Addicted to You " easily won the right to represent Finland at Eurovision 2002: despite heavy promotion-reportedly the most ever afforded a Finnish Eurovision entrant-and high expectations for its Eurovision placing, " Addicted to You " finished Eurovision 2002 in twentieth place out of a field of twenty-four and failed to reach the Finnish Top Ten, stalling at # 11.

This Top Secret Directive signed by its head Stanisław Radkiewicz was issued to all Voivodeship and field UB offices.

He recorded possibly his worst defeat in his whole career at the 1973 Australian Open ( once again with a very weak field because as in 1972 among the Top 20 only Rosewall and Newcombe participated ) when seeded first he was defeated by German Karl Meiler in his first match ( second round ): 2 – 6, 3 – 6, 2 – 6.

* New Jersey Nets Top Ten Career Leader in points, field goals made, three point field goals made and attempted, free throws made and attempted, offensive and defensive rebounds

The cars were clearly the class of the field, finishing the Hardies Heroes Top 10 runoff for pole in 1st ( Walkinshaw / Percy in # 8 ), 2nd ( Jeff Allam / Ron Dickson in # 9 ) and 6th ( Goss / Armin Hahne in # 10 ).

It was a rear-aspect, fire and forget pursuit weapon, with a field of attack of 20 degrees either side of the target and was partially replaced in service by a developed variant, the Hawker Siddeley Red Top.

The 18-pounder continued to be used as a general-purpose light gun in other theatres, such as on Gallipoli where it was manhandled up onto the tops of steep hills such as the " 400 Plateau ", " Bolton's Hill " and " Russell's Top " because of the lack of a modern mountain gun and shortage of field howitzers.

It depicts Warren standing in uniform, with field binoculars on a granite pedestal, made of stone quarried at Little Round Top.

Additional songs taken from album Finally achieved the Top 40 status at least in the hip hop / R & B field.

He is perhaps best known in this field as the voice of " T. C .," the sly alley cat in the Hanna-Barbera series Top Cat ( modeled explicitely on Sgt.

After this, the band forms the traditional floating " U " and " T " and marches this across the majority of the field accompanied by " Rocky Top ".

Top: hole and electron concentrations through the junction ; Second from top: charge densities ; Third: electric field ; Bottom: electric potential

The flip of KIXZ from Country to Top 40 joins an already crowded current-based music field in Spokane: KZBD ( Top 40 ), KZZU-FM ( Adult Top 40 ), KEZE ( Rhythmic ), and KGZG-FM ( Rhythmic ) are the station's current competitors.

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck and The Tale of Tom Kitten are representative of Hill Top Farm and of her farming life, and reflect her happiness with her country life.

# World Cup Qualifier: 12 Teams – Top 6 are awarded ODI status and Top 4 qualify for the World Cup.

Top Up TV later replaced it ; however, this service is shrinking as the DVB-T multiplex owners are finding free-to-air broadcasting more profitable.

( Top ) Dominoes are standing.

Top club divers are usually called " junior Olympic ", or JO divers.

The Top 40 format emerged, where popular songs are played repeatedly.

Top to bottom viewing angles may still be restrictive, by design, as looking at an LCD from an extreme up or down angle is not a common usage model and these photons are wasted.

The space-time coordinates of an event, as measured by each observer in their inertial reference frame ( in standard configuration ) are shown in the speech bubbles .< p > Top: frame F ' moves at velocity v along the x-axis of frame F .< p > Bottom: frame F moves at velocity − v along the x '- axis of frame F '.

Coster-Mullen is the author of Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man, 2003 ( first printed in 1996, self-published ), considered a definitive text about Little Boy ; illustrations from which are used in the Assembly details section above.

Top sectors attracting FDI inflows from Mauritius ( from January 2000 to December, 2005 ) are electrical equipment, telecommunications, fuels, cement & gypsum products and services sector ( financial & non-financial ).

Some well-known music-radio formats are Top 40, Freeform Rock and AOR ( Album Oriented Rock ).

Top silver-producing mines are Cannington ( Australia ), Fresnillo ( Mexico ), San Cristobal ( Bolivia ), Antamina ( Peru ), Rudna ( Poland ), and Penasquito ( Mexico ).

Top near-term mine development projects through 2015 are Pascua Lama ( Chile ), Navidad ( Argentina ), Jaunicipio ( Mexico ), Malku Khota ( Bolivia ), and Hackett River ( Canada ).

Top level races are in length.

Both the Leadership Executive MBA Program and the part-time MBA Program are recognized among the Top 25 in their categories by " U. S. News & World Report's 2010 America's Best Graduate Schools.

Although it was Sondheim's only Top 40 hit, his songs are frequently performed and recorded by cabaret artists and theatre singers in their solo careers.

Top political programs such as The Rush Limbaugh Show are never broadcast in Canada mainly due to high rights fees.

Waits ' albums Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards and Alice are both included in metacritic. com's list of the " Top 200: Best-Reviewed Albums " since 2000 at # 10 and # 20, respectively ( as of November 2009 ).

A long-running segment has been the Top Tips, reader-submitted suggestions which are a parody of similar sections found in women's magazines offering domestic and everyday tips to make life easier.

Top cropping yeasts are so called because they form a foam at the top of the wort during fermentation.

Maintaining the same members for over forty years, ZZ Top has released 15 studio albums and are among the most popular rock groups, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, half of this figure concerning the United States alone.

The entire series was collected in a trade paperback and published by Eddie Campbell Comics in 1999 ; trade paperback and hardcover versions are now published by Top Shelf Productions in the USA and Knockabout Comics in the UK.

Top SPL cars are not able to play normal music, or perhaps even to drive normally as they are designed solely for competition.