Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, Julian S. Schwinger, professor of Physics, feels that "it is improbable to get the high temperatures necessary for fusion other than by plutonium or uranium explosions...
...Washington today, there will be two items of "purely domestic" Argentine business that will not find their way on to the agenda. One is the suppression of the newspaper La Prensa by Peron's government, which became official last week; the other is the Argentine discovery of nuclear fusion, the process behind the hydrogen bomb...
...versatility, Smuts had lived his own "idea of the whole" which he expounded in his book, Holism and Evolution in 1926. He believed that everywhere in the universe-among electrons and protons, plants and animals, minds and personalities, empires and world orders-the forces of cooperation and fusion, i.e., "holism,"*are at work. But at Smuts's life's end, not even his own beloved country was whole...
...fission type used to date, as distinct from the fusion or hydrogen bomb, which has not yet been made...
...current Scientific American, Dr. Robert F. Bacher, professor of physics at CalTech, a former (1946-49) AECommissioner (and therefore an inside authority), speaks up frankly. His opinion of the hydrogen bomb: it is not practical as a military weapon. Carefully omitting secret details. Dr. Bacher points out that hydrogen fusion is not really a new primary source of atomic energy. It is only a new way of using the energy in old, familiar uranium...