Word: h-bomb
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...amounts of lithium-6, a chemical used only in hydrogen bombs. The substance was kept at the Al-Atheer weapons center 40 miles south of Baghdad, a facility virtually unscathed by the war. While a team of experts flew to Iraq to begin searching for evidence of a potential H-bomb, the U.N. Security Council drafted a resolution aimed at preventing Iraq from ever regaining a nuclear capability. The provisions for mandatory reporting by Baghdad sound overly optimistic, given Saddam's past deceptions...
...talking to the upper echelon here. Imean, how many people are going to have aproblem--you drop the old H-bomb and you're in,"said Joshua F. Laff, a visiting undergraduate fromBrandeis University...
...Harvard." Long pause. Okay, I got it over with. I dropped the H-bomb. Let's move on. "How 'bout this Iraq thing...
...monitored the Soviets' weapons research by examining the fallout from their blasts, but he doubts that the U.S.S.R. could have worked in the other direction, deducing the secret of Mike's construction by studying its debris. Teller and others believe that the late Andrei Sakharov, who built the Soviet H-bomb, was clever enough to have invented the device from scratch, without the help of Fuchs or anyone else...
...really gave the H-bomb secrets to the Soviet Union? Newly revealed facts about one of the murkiest episodes in U.S. history yield some intriguing answers...