Word: hydrogenate
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Under present military circumstances, the United States should be able to repulse Chinese aggression in Asia without resorting the use of atomic or hydrogen bombs on China's cities. Conventional military weapons could probably stop any attack on Formosa, in view of the evident Chinese weakness in sea-power. If the Communists launched a mass offensive in Korea, the United States might find it necessary to employ tactical atomic weapons. But there is an essential distinction between these tactical atomic weapons--such as artillery shells and airplane rockets--and large atomic and hydrogen bombs. Informed military men say that...
...matter of seconds, the civilization it has taken man so many centuries to put together. No wonder some ask, "Are we not playing with things that belong to God?" The concerted, atheistic threat against all we hold dear has increased and grown bolder in the ratio that the hydrogen bomb has surpassed the rifle. We, in turn, must remain armed to the teeth to contain that threat...
...passion for military pacts," Nehru said. "Such pacts do change the world, but they change it for the worse . . . The world has fallen into a dangerously simple way of looking at things-that everything and everyone must be Communist or anti-Communist . . . Because a person has a hydrogen bomb, it does not mean that his mind has become as powerful . . . Are we going into this madhouse also, behaving like lunatics like the others...
...mock hydrogen bomb raid will be held in 50 American cities on June 15, Radcliffe Commencement day, and will extend through the morning of June 16, when Harvard exercises are scheduled...
Some physicists are now guessing that the bomb exploded in the Marshall Islands in Operation Castle on March 1, 1954 was a thermofission device. They theorize that it had an old-style atom bomb (U-235 or plutonium) as a detonator at its center. Around this was hydrogen-containing material. Outside this, in turn, was a layer of 11-238. The extreme high temperature of fusion caused the U-238 to explode by thermofission...