Word: dd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four of the five students had asked for single tickets; the fifth wanted two. They all ended up in the same section, and three of the tickets were consecutive in Row DD. Two were next to each other in Row CC, but one was down in front...
...disrespect for this subcommittee" when he chose to disregard a request from Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy that Peress' discharge be held up. Then the subcommittee listed 48 instances of snarled red tape: e.g., "the failure of Major Stambaugh, G2, First Army, upon receipt of Peress' DD Form 398 (in which Peress refused to list organizations to which he had belonged), to initiate action looking to cancellation of active-duty orders...
...author does not think much of this simple "dd reaction." Probably not enough deuterium atoms would collide squarely. The reaction would probably die out before much of the material had a chance to react, and thus the bomb would not be very destructive. It might be much better, says the author, to surround the uranium detonator with lithium hydride. When hydrogen and lithium atoms in this common chemical compound are given sufficient energy, they react with one another, forming two atoms of helium 4. It takes only 100,000 electron volts, says the article, to start the reaction. Each atomic...