Word: hydrogenate
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...silence was total as his words sank in. Khrushchev jeered at President Eisenhower's comment on the Soviet decision to stop nuclear tests: "If Eisenhower really thinks we have stopped atomic and hydrogen tests for propaganda reasons, then why don't he and other Western statesmen try the same propaganda and halt tests themselves...
Back in 1928. Kansas City Chemist J. C. Patrick stirred up a gummy mess of sulphur, carbon and hydrogen in an attempt to find a better, cheaper antifreeze. What he got was not antifreeze but one of the first types of synthetic rubber. He named it Thiokol (after the Greek for sulphur and glue), and with friends formed Thiokol Chemical Corp. As a rubbermaker, Thiokol did not go very far saleswise (one reason: it smelled so foul that it was dubbed "synthetic halitosis"). But since the age of space, the company has rocketed because Thiokol is a chief component...
...emphasize the go-slow aspects of the party's policy on nuclear armaments, last week issued a new policy declaration calling for 1) suspension of British H-bomb tests for "a limited period"; 2) immediate discontinuance of patrol flights from British bases of U.S. planes loaded with hydrogen bombs; 3) postponement of construction work on U.S. missile bases in Britain until a new attempt has been made to negotiate with the Soviet Union...
...great commotion sounded in Britain. Defense Minister Duncan Sandys' White Paper, asserting flatly that major Russian aggression, even by conventional forces, would be met by nuclear retaliation, had roused a fresh hubbub of demands to ban the hydrogen bomb, to abandon nuclear weapons, to refuse the U.S.-made Thor rockets. Thousands attended meetings organized by 85-year-old Philosopher Bertrand Russell, who wants Britain to forswear its nuclear weapons as an example to mankind. Urged on by the Daily Herald, 70 Laborite M.P.s backed a "Victory for Socialism" group, dedicated to rejecting the U.S. missiles. Last week Sandys faced...
...could be launched only "with the consent of the British government," he pointed out, and cited Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell's own statement that "there is no essential physical difference between the launching of missiles, which do not have to be manned, and the launching of bombers with hydrogen bombs, which have to be manned." He added: "If Russia, with her incomparably larger forces, were to launch an all-out attack, then the Western Allies would have the choice of striking back with nuclear weapons or submitting to defeat and occupation." The Victory-for-Socialism Laborites leaped to their...