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Public debate on the nation's policy of developing atomic and hydrogen bombs always has been handicapped by one stark fact: there can hardly be two sides to the argument when the nondebating Russians are rushing to perfect the biggest, most devastating weapons as fast as they can -and now are bragging about it to boot (see FOREIGN NEWS). Last week two Democratic candidates relearned this lesson in a discussion that went, chronologically, thus...
Adlai Stevenson, in Washington: "I believe we should give prompt and earnest consideration to stopping further tests of the hydrogen bomb. As a layman, I question the sense in multiplying and enlarging weapons of a destructive power already almost incomprehensible. Of course, I would call upon other nations to follow our lead...
...that it was hard to believe it really wasn't June until Khrushchev genially informed his British hosts that a Russian Tupolev jet transport "covers the distance from Moscow to London in three and a half hours," and coupled this statement with pointed reminders of the existence of hydrogen bombs and intercontinental guided missiles. Just about then, everyone remembered that it really was still April-which Poet T. S. Eliot long ago called the "cruellest month...
Stevenson clanged swords with the Administration on a perilous issue: the U.S. "should give prompt and earnest consideration to stopping further tests of the hydrogen bomb . . . As a layman I question the sense in multiplying and enlarging weapons of a destructive power already almost incomprehensible." Equally drastic was his proposal that the U.S. put greater reliance on the United Nations as the agency for passing out its economic aid, thereby removing "economic development from the arena of the cold...
...presence of U-237 as well as fission products in the dust that fell on Tokyo convinced Dr. Sugiura that the Soviet bomb of last November was a "super-U-bomb" like the U.S. Bikini job of 1954 (then popularly known as the hydrogen bomb). In short, it evidently got most of its energy from the fission of cheap, plentiful...