Word: hydrogenate
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...Winston Churchill in the House of Commons last week clothed common sense with eloquence to align Britain with U.S. policy on the use of hydrogen bombs as a major deterrent against Communism. As he cast up the atomic probabilities of the future (see FOREIGN NEWS), he emphasized that the U.S. still has an enormous superiority over the Communists in hydrogen bombs-and the Communists probably will not catch up for three or four years...
...Attended services at Washington's National Presbyterian Church, met and listened attentively to Guest Preacher Billy Graham (see RELIGION), who told the congregation: "The problem we're wrestling with today is not Communism, not the hydrogen bomb-it's human nature...
...moving, majestic speech, the world's greatest orator last week came to grips with the hydrogen bomb. By his own oft-repeated statement, 80-year-old Sir Winston Churchill has had the bomb constantly in his mind, particularly since that April day in 1954 when the first public image of the hydrogen fireball billowed out of the photographs into the minds of men. Now, his shock behind him, his desperation gone, Churchill gave splendid utterance to the belief that has guided the U.S. ever since Hiroshima: that nuclear fission spells hope, as well as horror, for mankind...
...fact," he growled, "that a quantity of plutonium, probably less than would fill this box on the table*. . . would suffice to produce weapons which would give undisputable world domination to any great power which was the only one to have it. There is no absolute defense against the hydrogen bomb . . . [Before its consequences] imagination stands appalled...
Survivors farther from the explosion did not get leukemia so frequently, but even among those nearly two miles away the leukemia rate has been far above normal. Dr. Moloney expects other forms of cancer to appear later, and he suspects that the radioactive fallout of hydrogen bombs will have even greater cancer-producing effect. His guess is that repeated small exposures because of the fallout will cause more malignancies than the atom bomb's single big dose...