Word: hydrogenate
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...Colonel Schriever, in charge of development planning for Air Force headquarters, was one of the R and D officers who felt-and he proclaimed what he felt insistently-that a full survey of future nuclear warhead design ought to be made so as to shrink the cumbersome new hydrogen bomb into an ICBM. The H-bomb had a higher range of destruction than the Abomb, the argument went, and the need for pinpoint accuracy was therefore reduced...
...Breakthroughs followed in what now seems an extraordinarily short space of time. Early in 1954 a Strategic Missiles Evaluation Committee headed by the late great Mathematician John von Neumann developed and extended these breakthroughs. Von Neumann and his associates came out with a feasible technique for designing a lightweight hydrogen device which would indeed fit into the nose cone of an ICBM...
Unlike the history of the aircraft carrier, the long-range bomber, the hydrogen bomb, the nuclear-powered submarine-all of which met service opposition before acceptance-the history of the missile has little record of military unwillingness to accept it as the weapon that must be developed at top speed. Another point is that the armed forces are not phasing in the missiles prematurely. "It is just as dangerous to have a weapon too early," said one SAC officer, "as it is to have it too late...
...yields energy as a result of chemical reaction. This definition excludes nuclear "fuels." e.g., U-235, but it includes thousands of lesser energy-yielders. Petroleum hydrocarbons (gasoline, kerosene, etc.) are the commonest aviation fuels only because they are plentiful, convenient and relatively cheap. Many other chemicals yield more energy. Hydrogen has the highest heat of combustion (52,000 B.T.U.* per lb.), but carbon is rather low (14.500 B.T.U. per lb.). Hydrocarbons, which contain both carbon and hydrogen, are therefore intermediate. Kerosene burned in jet engines yields only about 18,500 B.T.U...
...would be nice to use pure hydrogen, but this is impractical because hydrogen is a gas that cannot be kept in the liquid state without extreme difficulty. Next best is to "liquefy" hydrogen by making it combine with some other element to form a conveniently liquid compound. Kerosene is such a liquid, but it contains too much low-energy carbon...