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That process could have been the coup de grace for Yiddish, a fusion of German, Hebrew and Slavic languages that was the lingua franca of Ashkenazic Jews for most of the past millennium. In this century the language had already suffered the cataclysm of the Holocaust as well as the adoption of English by most North American Jews, the suppression of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union, and the decision by Israel to bypass Yiddish and give Hebrew the status of a national language. Lansky, who in 1979 was a graduate student in Yiddish literature at McGill University in Montreal...
...conventional A-bomb to ignite a separate H-bomb. But Ulam, a brilliant mathematician, made a series of calculations that showed that the amount of tritium fuel required for Teller's bomb was prohibitive and that even when sparked by an A-bomb, it would probably not achieve fusion...
...bomb, who did? Hirsch and Mathews suggest that Teller himself may have inadvertently - assisted the Soviets by pushing for an early test blast. The 1952 explosion peppered the atmosphere with a telltale assortment of radioactive debris, including new atomic elements that could have been created only by a compressed fusion reaction. When Hirsch and Mathews asked Bethe if that fallout could have tipped off the Soviets, Bethe instantly said yes. Says Hirsch: "It was as though he had been waiting 35 years for someone to ask him that question...
Attempts by other scientists to duplicate the experiment were unsuccessful. However, some of them did show a small amount of excess heat production. None of the other experiments showed production of neutrons or gamma rays, which are sure signs of fusion...
...Cold fusion experiments are now in progress atthe National Cold Fusion Institute, a nonprofitcorporation founded recently by the University ofUtah, Texas A&M University. Brigham YoungUniversity, Stanford University, the University ofMinnesota and the Los Alamos National Laboratoryin New Mexico