Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hired 90,000 people on the atom, through 219,000 contracts & subcontracts...
...continent last month, the usually stolid British Foreign Office acted in a way the British call "hysterical" if displayed by Americans. Police on two continents, including Scotland Yard, launched a gigantic man hunt for Donald Duart MacLean and Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess. Everyone recalled the case of Atom Spy Klaus Fuchs and the flight of Britain's Atom Scientist Bruno Pontecorvo behind the Iron Curtain last year. The general fear last week: that the two men had gone over to the Russians, taking secret information with them...
...suggest that atomic warfare, like chemical warfare, is a thing of the past? Neither side dares to use the atom bomb . . . [Then] what is Stalin waiting for? Only for us to bankrupt ourselves to the point where we can no longer afford to keep an army in the field. Then he (or his heirs) will move-but fast. How can we offset this? 1) By having fighting forces which will live a Spartan existence; 2) By having civilians who will live a Spartan existence...
...Defense Department would not elaborate, but the reference to "thermonuclear weapons" provided grounds for some informed guesses. Scientists have long known that the only way in sight to start the fusion of hydrogen atoms is by extreme heat-and the only known way to generate such heat is by an atomic explosion. Thus, an atom bomb would have to act as the "trigger" for any H-bomb...
Last week's announcement did not mean that the U.S. already has an H-bomb. It more likely meant that an atom bomb has been found feasible as a trigger for the H-bomb, and that possibly some heavier hydrogen atoms had actually been fused in the experiments. If so, that was a big jump ahead in the grim, global atomic race...