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Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, last week published his eagerly awaited account of the explorations that made the weapon possible. Printed in Science, weekly publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and entitled "The Work of Many People," it is a modest and moving effort to close the rift opened by the political and ethical debate over whether to go ahead with the "super...
...present time," says Teller, "I find myself unhappily in a situation of being given certainly too much credit and perhaps too much blame for what has happened. Yet, I feel that the development of the hydrogen bomb should not divide those who in the past have argued about it, but rather should unite all of us who, in a close or distant way, by work or by criticism, have contributed toward its completion. Disunity of the scientists is one of the greatest dangers for our country...
...their discovery led directly to the Abomb. And fission, with its intense release of energy, also suggested that conditions could be created under which thermonuclear reactions might occur. The late Enrico Fermi in 1942 suggested to Teller that fission could be used to start thermonuclear reaction in deuterium (heavy hydrogen). "After a few weeks of hard thought," Teller recalls, "I decided that deuterium could not be ignited by atomic bombs...
Deuterium (heavy hydrogen) is present in all water to the amount of 0.02%, and it can be separated with considerable difficulty by several processes, including fractional distillation. The geothermal plant, financed jointly by Britain and New Zealand, will separate the heavy water from the steam in a special apparatus designed by the British Atomic Energy Authority. Then the steam will run conventional turbines, generating electricity for New Zealand's growing industries...
Guided Missiles: Britain openly admitted that it is behind the U.S.-and, presumably, the Soviet Union-in the development of ground-to-air guided missiles. But it considers itself well advanced in air-to-air guided weapons, and is also developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (IBM) with hydrogen warheads...