Word: h-bomb
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...soon as Rusk arrived in Paris, his hosts made clear that they were angered by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's recent Michigan speech in which he denounced new, small national H-bomb projects as risky and useless. McNamara had said that "limited nuclear capabilities, operating independently, are dangerous, expensive, prone to obsolescence, and lacking in credibility as a deterrent." Asked Charles de Gaulle of Rusk: "How am I going to explain this to the French people...
...first A-bomb on Aug. 29, 1949, a new controversy split AEC and the nation's atomic scientists. Should the U.S. start a crash program to develop a hydrogen bomb? Strauss pleaded for it, but Lilienthal and the other three commissioners argued that the U.S. had a sufficient atomic superiority. J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of a general advisory commit tee of scientists to AEC, maintained that the doubtful project would only divert personnel from the proven A-bomb program. To Strauss's side, however, came AEC Physicist Edward Teller, whose studies indicated that the H-bomb was scientifically...
...fall and injure 23 Japanese tuna fishermen-one fatally-on their trawler, Lucky Dragon, which was 14 miles outside the restricted zone. Ogle was a top technical official at Ivy and Castle, ironically considers Castle the test "which gave us more of practical value than any other." The U.S. H-bomb success came a mere nine months before the Russians fired their own hydrogen superbomb-proving again that the doubters had been wrong...
...Bitter Debate. The U.S. continued testing, at Nevada and in the Pacific, from Operation Teapot through Operation Hardtack in October of 1958. During that period, the scientists tested tactical atomic weapons, dropped an H-bomb from a B-52, fired a depth charge, triggered a missile warhead 100 miles high, tried fallout-free underground testing...
...wholly owned by cynical Wall Street speculators? That U.S. foreign policy is dictated by the Rockefellers? That the country is a police state run by J. Edgar Hoover? That hundreds of Negroes were lynched last year in Little Rock, and the U.S. Air Force aims to drop an H-bomb on Havana...