Word: hydrogenate
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...disastrous to animal life. It is clear that the United States is in no position to play with nuclear weapons when no one is certain of the exact safety factor. The wisest course of action under these uncertain circumstances is to ban the testing of the high-powered hydrogen bombs which are the really significant producers of radiation hazard...
...opportunity presented now by the other atomic powers. I would do this by conference or consultation-at whatever level-in whatever place-the circumstances might suggest . . . " If one of the other powers were to break its agreement, Stevenson argued, the U.S. could resume its hydrogen tests in "not more than eight weeks...
...Grossly exaggerated the dangers of fallout from H-bomb tests; the four-month-old, nonpolitical National Academy of Sciences report found that the radioactive fallout from hydrogen tests, if continued for the next 30 years at the rate of the last five, would amount to about one-thirtieth of the dose the average person would receive from routine X ray and fluoroscopic examinations. Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby has said that even if tests were to continue at the present rate indefinitely, the quantity of radioactive Strontium 90 in humans might increase only to 64/1,000ths of the "maximum permissible...
...talking about a treaty arrangement-without conditions beyond mutual promise to stop testing H-bombs. He found a ready taker for that sort of arrangement. In the United Nations, Chief Soviet Delegate Arkady Sobolev said Russia is ready to enter into an agreement for "an immediate halt" to the hydrogen tests-"without conditions." For years, the Russians had been arguing for nuclear disarmament -without conditions. Dwight Eisenhower, and Harry Truman before him, have rejected the proposition. Reason: the U.S. insists on at least one condition, mutual inspection, that would make the Soviet word worth the paper it is written...
...Estes-lestes went into the woods in search of an issue, and the idea hit him in the head like a mighty H-bomb, so he naturally decided to tell everybody about it. As he stood before reporters, he told them: "The force from the explosion from a large hydrogen bomb is getting so stupendous and so dangerous that the maximum force available to us right now from a concussion of hydrogen bombs is ... sufficient to blow the earth off its axis by 16 degrees, which would affect the seasons." The reporters asked him how was this so, and Estes...