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...Shepley-Blair report, The Hydrogen Bomb, is now the center of a roaring controversy. The book has been denounced by men of weight, including many leading atomic scientists. Certain journalists have said that the book implies a plot on the part of atomic scientists against the U.S. They have said that the book is part of an anti-intellectual wave that is making it impossible for scientists to work for the Government...
...Limitations. The Shepley-Blair book begins with the following important statement of its own limitations: "A full assessment of the delay in development of the hydrogen bomb and its effect on the survival of the U.S. as a nation and upon the future of mankind will be impossible for some years to come. These reporters have not attempted to do so here, or to ascribe motives to the individuals responsible...
November 1952: Mike, a cumbersome hydrogen device, was exploded at Elugelab Island in the Pacific...
...book presents Teller as the father of the hydrogen bomb. He broke the almost solid front of scientists who were opposing an all-out effort in the fall of 1949; in 1951 he had the "flash of genius" without which the bomb could not have been made...
...Book's Lesson. The Alsopian myth that the hydrogen-bomb controversy is part of an antiscience, anti-intellectual crusade could do profound damage in this country. There is bound to be-and there is indeed-trouble between intellectual principles and any government of a great modern state. The governments deal with terrible responsibilities of the here and now. The intellectual deals with truths that transcend national boundaries...