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...this week's SCIENCE section appears a story on a subject that is just beginning to make a public impact, though TIME first reported on the "neutron bomb" back in November 1959. It is one of those subjects that, in the nature of national security, inevitably involves a high degree of classified information. Those who know most about it can't and won't talk. Those who do talk about it often know too little, and misinformation and exaggeration spread...
...nerve and not of policy. The Labor left wing is also antiMarket in order to retain Brit ain's unilateral capacity to act; it is the left's impression that Britain is still morally powerful enough to sway world opinion, particularly by giving up the atom bomb to shame everybody else into disarming. When Laborite Roy Jenkins forcefully argued that Britain ought to go into the Common Market to end the division of Europe that has spawned three wars in the last 100 years, he was interrupted by both camps, but refused to be shouted down. "The Suez...
...ominous debate over nuclear testing, an ominous phrase, "the neutron bomb," echoed across the U.S. last week. It resounded through Congress, leaked into the press, was broadcast on TV and radio. Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Dodd, the N-bomb's most enthusiastic proponent, told the Senate: "We are in mortal peril. More than a year has passed since I first spoke on the folly of the test-ban moratorium. I mentioned the neutron bomb would operate as a kind of death ray. It would do next to no physical damage and result in no contamination...
Though there are powerful arguments for the resumption of nuclear testing, scientists and high Government officials who are in the nuclear know do not list the neutron bomb among them. It is a fascinating and frightful possibility, but it is not sufficiently advanced to require explosive testing. That stage of development waits in the scientific future...
General Destruction. The still-theoretical neutron bomb will use a "pure-fusion" reaction, a third generation in nuclear explosions. In old-fashioned fission (Abomb) explosions, nuclei of uranium or plutonium split roughly in half, and the big, heavy fragments are shoved apart by powerful electrical forces. Almost at once they collide with other nuclei, with other materials in the bomb and with the surrounding air. The collisions slow the nuclei down and turn their original energy into heat. The result is a high-temperature fireball that sears its surroundings with heat radiation and expands so violently that it generates...