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They have another prime reason: after ten years of secret planning, the U.S. is on the verge of developing a true "clean bomb," with enormous implications for both brush-fire war and big-war tactics. It is the neutron bomb, triggered by a fission process, topped off by a small hydrogen (fusion) explosion, designed to bombard enemy troops in a specific area with millions of fatal, invisible neutron "bullets." The neutron bomb does not damage property, scatters virtually no radioactive fallout, cannot be detected. Friendly troops could enter the area shortly after the bomb had been used. And although...
...small yield underground, the U.S. cannot know if the Russians have really stopped tests. The Russians have tested several high-energy shots this year, one in excess of Hiroshima size, and the U.S. has only the U.S.S.R.'s word that the shots were nonnuclear. Moreover, with their big-thrust rocket engines, the Russians have the capability of testing nuclear warheads without detection in outer space, getting telemetered results much as they did from their moon shots. "We haven't quite lost this fight yet." said one knowledgeable nuclear scientist. "But we're in the position of having...
...Cranberry Boggle (Contd.) " 'What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done?' " intoned a worried cranberry merchant in Washington last week, taking Isaiah (5:4) for his text. Bible-quoting George C. P. Olson, president of Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., the big growers' cooperative, thus put it straight to Arthur Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare, who threw growers and housewives into a panic the week before with his declaration-based upon mouse tests-that cranberries tainted with the weed killer aminotriazole might cause cancer (TIME, Nov. 23). Said Olson: "You have...
...Charlie Porter, a World War II Air Corps ground officer, settled down quietly on the lowly House Post Office and Civil Service Committee after his election in 1956. But like others of the species, he soon discovered that international affairs could bring him fame of a sort and big headlines back home. The discovery came when he commendably tried to find out what had happened to one of his constituents. Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy. Murphy disappeared and was reported murdered after telling how he piloted a plane that carried Basque Scholar Jesus de Galindez to an appointment with death...
...they all gotta big smile an' a pounda thumb...