Word: hydrogen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard F. Post, of the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, reported that a "magnetic mirror" machine, playfully called Toy Top III, may soon make possible a controlled (nonexplosive) thermonuclear reaction. In the past, plasma formed by magnetic squeezing and heating of heavy hydrogen was too unstable to reach and maintain the high temperature necessary for a thermonuclear reaction. By using only two of Toy Top's three stages, said Post, plasma was confined in a "magnetic bottle" for one-thousandth of a second at a temperature of 40 million degrees centigrade. Post hopes that by using...
ROUND the clock, day and night, twelve B-52s armed with hydrogen bombs cruise over the U.S. and Canada, carrying maps, charts and radar photos of Soviet targets. They are part of the Strategic Air Command's 1,500-plane retaliatory strike force, but they have a special distinction: because the twelve are always on station at their high-altitude guard posts, they constitute a brand-new weapon in the U.S. arsenal. They are the airborne answer to the threat of Soviet Russia's growing missile force, the minimum strike-back punch that the U.S. can deliver even...
...opponents. For example, he provides a precise, methodical critique of summit conferences as substitute for well- formulated policies, but he might well jeoparadize his position when he speaks, in conclusion, of "the perils of having as principal negotiators the men who make the final decision about the use of hydrogen bombs. Frustration or humiliation may cause them to embark on an irrevocable course...
...opposing explanation, the "steady-state" theory, holds that matter is being created continuously in the form of hydrogen atoms that appear in space. Little by little, the newborn matter clumps together, forming galaxies that repel each other and move apart. As they grow old and separate, new galaxies form in the widening gaps between them. The steady-state universe has no center or outer boundary. It had no beginning and will have...
...forgers' most sustained efforts followed a 1957 Khrushchev newspaper interview deploring the "dangers" of SAC's airborne alert system: "when planes with hydrogen bombs aboard take off, that means that people will be in the air piloting them. There is always the possibility of a mental blackout . . ." Shortly thereafter, the so-called "Berry letter" surfaced in East Berlin's Neues Deutschland. In it, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense, Dr. Frank B. Berry, was "caught" reporting to his chief, Neil McElroy, that "we have obtained statistics showing that 67.3% of U.S.A.F. personnel are psychoneurotic, involved in sexual ercesses...