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...cent were above the median national income, according to government statistics. President Carter's proposal in his economic recovery program for $975 million to weatherize lower and middle income homes is the right step, but it is a drop in the bucket. While the billions spent on synfuels and fusion are not benefitting anyone, a program of home insulation could provide direct and immediate relief for the poor. Such a program would also create thousands of jobs in the faltering home building and construction industries...
...hydrogen bomb, a fission reaction at the core triggers a fusion reaction,* which releases a rapid burst of neutrons. These neutrons have to penetrate an outer shield of uranium 238, which reduces their velocity, increases the bomb's explosive punch and releases harmful radioactivity...
...basically a fusion weapon. About 80% of its energy is released in the form of a flow of high-speed neutrons, and only 20% in the form of heat and blast. The high-speed neutrons readily penetrate iron or steel, so armored tanks are no protection to the crews inside them...
...Fission splits atomic nuclei apart; fusion forces light atomic nuclei together to form heavy nuclei. Both reactions release large amounts of energy...
Partly in response to such encouragement, Soviet researchers have made enormous strides in narrowing the scientific gap with the West; in some cases, like the physics of fusion, certain aspects of metallurgy, and mathematics, they may be ahead of the U.S. In the near future, the Soviets are likely to advance in other areas as well; they are now spending about 3.4% of their gross national product on research (compared with 2.2% by the U.S.) and are training young scientists and engineers at a rate three to four times that of the U.S. Still, for all the triumphs of Soviet...