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Professor Gamow at George Washington. Teller studied thermonuclear reactions (fusion of hydrogen nuclei) in the stars. That pure-science undertaking was to have momentous consequences: it led to the development of the H-bomb...
...Radiation Laboratory, moved on to the Manhattan Project in 1943, Los Alamos in 1944-45. He flew in a B-29 half a mile behind the plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, later lined up against J. Robert Oppenheimer's refusal to speed development of the hydrogen bomb. Light-haired, blue-eyed, easygoing, he sports a yellow Lincoln convertible, shoots mid-80s golf (he sent President Eisenhower an electronic golf trainer that he had invented), once told his father: "I probably would be a better physicist if I turned longhair and stayed in the laboratory on Saturday...
When chemists dream their fanciest dreams, they imagine powering a rocket with liquid hydrogen and liquid ozone (03). This pair is tops for energy. Its reaction has a specific impulse of 373. The specific impulse of the traditional kerosene-oxygen combination is only...
...Seconds, $5,000. Liquid hydrogen is bulky, expensive and extremely hard to handle. Ozone is expensive, poisonous and explosive. Another dream oxidant, liquid fluorine, is about as bad. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics has been working on liquid fluorine as an oxidant at a cost as high as $5,000 for a 30-second test of a smallish rocket, but no one thinks that fluorine will come into wide use soon...
...annual meeting of the Atomic Industrial Forum in Manhattan's Plaza hotel last week, the Atomic Energy Commission hit the uranium business with a hydrogen bomb. Said AEC's Raw Materials Chief Jesse Johnson: "We have arrived at the point where it is no longer in the interest of the Government to expand production of uranium concentrate...