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...fuse was seven-starred Marshal Alphonse Juin, 65, first 'soldier of France, vice president of France's national defense council, commander in chief of the Central European forces of NATO. For publicly and roundly condemning the proposed European Army (which he was likely to command if it should máterialize), blunt, impetuous Marshal Juin was summoned personally by Premier Joseph Laniel to the Hotel Matignon to give an account of his actions...
...series. If light atoms, e.g., hydrogen, are packed together into a larger atom, it weighs less than the pieces that form it. Here again, the loss of weight shows up as energy. A little figuring told the physicists that a given amount of a light element, forced to fuse, would yield more energy than the same amount of uranium. Besides, light elements are plentiful, while uranium is scarce...
...Faulty Fuse...
...preparation for the Smoker celebration. It consisted of an empty beer can filled with a quantity of black gunpowder that had been emptied from some 23 shotgun shells. The constructors did not buy a mechanical detonator to set the explosive off, but planned instead to make their own fuse out of some extra gunpowder...
After the Smoker had ended, Stout and a friend walked up to Radcliffe in order to set the explosive off. They lit one fuse and hurried out of range, but nothing happened. Stout then went up to the bomb, and, in the dark, made a new fuse. However, he used to much powder, the fuse went too fast, and the explosion hit him in the face before he could move back...