Word: a-bomb
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...scientists must be able to control the fusion reac- tion and confine it to a chamber, which requires surmounting some formidable physical constraints. The hydrogen nuclei must be crushed together with enough force to overcome their mutually repellent positive electric charges. In H-bombs, that force is supplied by the detonation of a fission bomb, or A-bomb...
...everlasting regret, the USSR initially provided assistance to its fledgling ally in this endeavor. However, Khrushchev reneged on a promise to provide China a "sample" A-bomb, according to Beijing which made this charge when presenting its account of the Sino-Soviet schism. Nevertheless, in April 1964, within 15 years of its establishment, the PRC successfully detonated an atomic device...
...that time, when you think about old Henry Ford's gizmo that was supposed to save a peck of time. Only instead of conquering the open road, we wound up living on it. You've got a point. You a college boy? But this is the country of the A-bomb and the zipper. We always save time, good and bad. Tempus fugit. Time is money. Most of all, time is dreams. And computers give you time for dreams...
...many Soviet viewers, the program provided the first real glimpse of the horrors of nuclear war. Said a schoolboy of 14 who had seen pictures of mushroom clouds but not of an A-bomb's effects on the ground: "I never imagined that nuclear bombs could be so destructive...
...example, the Soviet Union and the U.S. carried out many A-bomb and H-bomb tests in the atmosphere between 1945 and 1963, after which they agreed to confine all future tests to underground. Yet considerable conjecture remains over the effects of these explosions. Extrapolating from some equipment failures after an American test over Johnston Island in the North Pacific 20 years ago, defense planners concluded that high-altitude blasts send out a shock wave called electromagnetic pulse (EMP), which can burn out transistorized and computerized communications for thousands of miles around...