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...missile, the efficiency of the engine is limited by the quality of its fuel. And as chemically fueled engines approach peak efficiency, the fuel they require becomes increasingly difficult to manage. But a nuclear rocket-in which hard-to-handle hydrogen will be heated by an atomic reactor-would offer ample recompense for its built-in problems. Its thrust, Seaborg explained, would be far greater than that available from any combination of chemical fuels; it would open the way to space voyages impossible with any other missile...
...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...
...Whose 1931 prizewinning discovery, deuterium (heavy hydrogen), became a vital component of the hydrogen bomb...
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...