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...first A-bomb's exploding efficiency was about 10 million degrees C. The new bombs are probably hotter. But-dollar for degree-they are unlikely to be as hot as the national debt: $255 billion...
Judge Irving Kaufman said to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, in passing the death sentence upon them: "I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb . . . has already caused the Communist aggression in Korea . . ." [TIME, April...
...Fear of A-Bomb...
...Kaufman looked down at the man & woman before him. "Plain, deliberate, contemplated murder is dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you have committed," he told Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in a hoarse, faint voice. "I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb . . . has already caused the Communist aggression in Korea . . . and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason...
Some atom-bomb secrets came out-or partly out-last week. During the Manhattan spy trial (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), confessed spy David Greenglass, who worked as a machine-shop foreman at Los Alamos, described sketchily the mechanism of the A-bomb used at Nagasaki. His testimony was not transcribed. But it was not suppressed entirely. The spies on trial could not be convicted without proof that they had given real and vital secrets to the Russians...