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...lecture circuit through four Ontario cities last week, two ministers of religion preached a confusing creed. They spoke soothingly of peace, but hinted darkly of the power of Russian atom bombs. They professed faith in God, then praised the ways of Soviet Communism. One of them, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, the Church of England's "Red Dean" of Canterbury, was an old hand at following the twists & turns of the Communist line. The other was a comparative stranger. He was a Toronto doctor of divinity, James Endicott, 52, a United Church minister only recently arrived in the front...
...diameter, and weighs only 11,000 lbs. According to an observer on board the Norton Sound, the rocket launched from the ship carried a 1,000-lb. payload of instruments for studying high-altitude cosmic rays. It might have carried a bomb (perhaps a lightweight-model atom bomb...
...permanent. He began to skid. He skidded with Henry Wallace away to the far left. He became an apologist for Russia's foreign policy. He went abroad, called on Stalin, promptly urged that the U.S. advance Russia a $6 billion loan. He proposed that the U.S. "destroy every atom bomb we have" and all atomic facilities. He sometimes out-talked even Wallace in denunciation of the U.S.'s toughening foreign policy...
...hydrogen bomb's necessary ingredients (a principal one, Dr. Bacher implies) is tritium, the heavy form of hydrogen with one proton and two neutrons in its nucleus. Tritium must be made in a chain-reacting pile by a reaction that costs one free neutron for every atom of tritium produced. There are plenty of free neutrons in a pile, but they originate in fissioning atoms of uranium-235 and are normally used to form plutonium (for atom bombs) out of nonfissionable U-238. Each neutron that is used to form an atom of tritium means less plutonium...
Next to the H-bomb and the atom bomb, there are few more controversial, carefully guarded U.S. defense secrets than the weapons of chemical and bacteriological warfare. Such an eminent bacteriologist as Johns Hopkins University's Professor Perrin H. Long has dismissed the whole subject of germ warfare as "bunk" (TIME, April 10). But last week the Army Chemical Corps's Major General Anthony ("Nuts") McAuliffe, hero of Bastogne, gave the U.S. a quick peek behind the curtain of secrecy. Addressing a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Detroit, General McAuliffe hinted that the U.S. was hard...