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...Russia. We should assume for the purpose of our national policies and planning that the Russians will reach this point during the year 1956. We need new national policies for what I would call Phase II of the Atomic Age-the time when the Russians will have enough fission and hydrogen bombs, and the planes and missiles to make a sneak attack on the United States which will destroy our major cities and most of our industries. In the first phase the United States was safe; the atomic bomb was a powerful asset in the American arsenal. In the second...
...Episodes of space travel are by no means rare in the imaginings of the mentally ill," says Plank. Equally symptomatic is the "last man" motif, in which all mankind has been annihilated save for one individual-or, more productively, a fertile couple, "Far from being a byproduct of atomic fission," Plank contends, this theme goes back to Greek mythology and "grows from the fertile soil of unconscious drives." Such standard schizophrenic symptoms as delusions of grandeur, of persecution, and of superhuman influence are science-fiction staples...
...bomb (after the Russians exploded their first A-bomb), "Dr. Oppenheimer strongly opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb on moral grounds, on grounds that it was not politically desirable," as well as because the H-bomb program would be a drain on the orderly development of the fission bomb program. Said the report: "Until the late spring of 1951, he questioned the feasibility of the hydrogen bomb efforts then in progress...
...exploded its first hydrogen bomb in November 1952; Russia, in August 1953. As a matter of actual fact (which neither Dr. Oppenheimer nor any other physicist could have predicted), H-bomb development proved to be no strain on the fission bomb program...
Citation: "Eminent authority on theoretical physics . . . One of the first to appreciate the potentialities of nuclear fission and fusion, you have given much of yourself to the development of the atomic energy project for peaceful pursuits as well as national defense...