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...ICBMs. Testing would also speed development of a next-generation "neutron bomb." Now on the drawing boards, that weapon is designed to bom bard a specific area with showers of le thal, invisible neutron "bullets." Because its fusion reaction is to be triggered by conventional explosives instead of "dirty" fission, there is much less blast or radioactive contamination-so that the bombarded area is left intact and friendly troops could occupy it. Furthermore, neutron weapons would be much lighter and cheaper than existing nuclear weapons, thus have enormous implications for brush-fire-war tactics...
...strong pressure in favor of more tests will come from some of Kennedy's nuclear and military advisers, who are eager to try out the so-called "neutron bomb" (TIME, Nov. 14)-a new breed of hydrogen weapon that is triggered by conventional explosives rather than nuclear fission. The ultimate in "clean" bombs (there is virtually no fallout), the neutron bomb is almost certainly under development by Russian scientists, and the U.S. cannot afford to linger much longer in testing...
...that period who laid the foundation for later Christian thought on death. In a new book, The Shape of Death (Abingdon Press; $2.25), leading Lutheran Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan of the University of Chicago analyzes the theories of five church fathers, shows that they are still stimulating and provocative to fission-era mortals...
...awesome milestone in the onrush of the atomic age. The confirmed facts: in the drab wastes of the Negev desert, tiny, semi-industrialized Israel, with the help of France, is building a 24,000-kw. nuclear reactor with the capacity to produce plutonium, a key ingredient for both a fission and hydrogen bomb. By 1964, estimated some U.S. atom experts, Israel could in theory set off a killingly effective atomic blast...
...sent an assistant on a rush trip to the Virgin Islands; soon the aide was back with jugs of sludge precipitated chemically from 2,500 gal. of six-month-old rain water. The stuff was faintly hot, containing the radioactive cerium and yttrium that are typical products of nuclear fission. As of then, King knew he had a quick and easy way to detect nuclear explosions...