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...world stewing over H-bomb developments ; Berlin gate crashers newsworthy; Castro trigger-happy again; Carla making history; and TIME [Sept. 15] comes up with a literary bug for a cover story. Zooey...
...small, light, dependable, and so "clean" that they do not contaminate a battlefield with deadly radioactivity. Such clean weapons are not in hand, and they cannot be developed without many more tests. Even farther away is the much-discussed neutron bomb, which promises to be a small, short-range H-bomb exploded by some other means than the usual "dirty" fission detonator. Its proponents believe that it will kill people by neutrons while its feeble blast and heat will do little damage to property. But before it can be added to the U.S. arsenal, the neutron bomb will require...
...first nuclear device in September 1949, only four years and two months after the first U.S. test at Alamogordo, N. Mex.. in July 1945. The Russian test involved a primitive fission bomb similar to the two U.S. bombs used in World War II, but the Russians must have started work immediately on the more advanced hydrogen bomb. On Aug. 12. 1953. they exploded their first test H-bomb, only nine months after the first U.S. H-bomb test at Eniwetok Island in the Pacific...
...Russians build a 100-megaton bomb? There is no reason why not. Increasing the power of an H-bomb is not a simple matter of adding more of the explosive ingredients; careful designing and testing are called for too. But U.S. experts agree that the U.S. could easily build "gigaton" (billion-ton) bombs if there were a need for them. So could the Russians...
...many nuclear bombs have the Russians? They have too many. In the early years of the Atomic Age. it was difficult to turn out primitive A-bombs in quantity because they were made of plutonium or uranium 235. and both elements require enormous plants for production. The advent of the H-bomb was a big break for the Russians because H-bomb ingredients (deuterium, lithium, etc.) are comparatively cheap and easy to get. Chances are that the Russians have turned most of their plutonium and U-235 into detonators for H-bombs. This should give them enough nuclear explosives...