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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked about a hydrogen bomb, the AECommissioners refused to comment. Said Chairman David E. Lilienthal: "All weapon information is classified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hydrogen Whisper | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...exciting bit of atomic gossip was loudly whispered about last week through Washington's resonant corridors. Tipsters were insisting that U.S. scientists are working on "the hydrogen bomb." The rumors started when Colorado's Senator Edwin Johnson, member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, told a television audience that the U.S. was trying to make a bomb i ,000 times as powerful as the one used at Hiroshima...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hydrogen Whisper | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...more than 10% of the fission energy present in its nuclear explosive. Perfect efficiency (probably impossible) would therefore give about ten times as much power, certainly not 1,000 times as much. So, figured the amateur physicists, the talkative Senator must have meant a bomb made out of hydrogen. It is well known that the conversion of hydrogen into helium is the nuclear reaction that gives the sun its energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hydrogen Whisper | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...minus 3 hours), a truck drove up and began pumping alcohol into the Viking II. Then came men in plastic suits to fill it with strong, corrosive hydrogen peroxide. The last fuel to enter the tanks was "lox" (liquid oxygen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: X Marks the Minute | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...engaged "in oceanographic research," they were moving unobtrusively as seals through Arctic waters north and west of the Soviet base at Murmansk. One evening, just after the Cochino and Tusk rendezvoused off Norway's North Cape, the mission came to a sudden end. An explosion, apparently caused by hydrogen from storage batteries, rumbled in the Cochino's vitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Voyage to Hammerfest | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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