Word: hydrogenate
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...essence of the Soviet's strategy for world conquest," he said flatly, "is to lull Americans into a sleep of death by talking peace until the Soviet Union possesses enough hydrogen bombs and intercontinental bombers to pulverize the airfields and productive centers of the United States by a sneak attack . . . The Soviet Union will not stop of its own volition. It must be stopped...
...would the Russians enter such a war to save their Chinese allies? "Perhaps," said Syngman Rhee. "But that would be excellent for the free world, since it would justify the destruction of the Soviet centers of production by the American Air Force before the Soviet hydrogen bombs had been produced in quantity. I am aware that this is a hard doctrine. But the Communists have made this a hard world, a horrible world, in which to be soft is to become a slave...
...Kind of H-Bomb. Of the many new experimental treatments for cancer described at the congress, the most promising was a "desexed" hormone used by Urologist Charles B. Huggins of the University of Chicago. He reported that he had stripped the hydrogen atom from the sex-hormone molecule, thus ridding it of the power to masculinize or feminize, then administered it to women with advanced breast cancer. The sexless hormones, Huggins hopes, can block the normal female hormones that stimulate breast cancer...
...hypersonic tunnel is a vacuum chamber at one end and a gas-charged cannon at the other. At the beginning of each test, a strong-walled tube six feet long and three inches in diameter is charged at high pressure with an explosive mixture of hydrogen, oxygen and helium. When the gas is detonated (with a bang like a 37 mm. gun), it ruptures a copper diaphragm. A blast of hot gases preceded by a shockwave races down a long evacuated tube. Pushed by pressure behind and pulled by the vacuum ahead, it expands through two nozzles...
...Each day that goes by," said Symington, "sees the relative military strength of the U.S. and its allies becoming weaker as against the growing strength of the Communists." For example: "The incredible destructive power of hydrogen warheads makes it possible to destroy a nation by launching a hail of ballistic missiles against it ... The most ominous aspect of this new weapon is that once launched, there is no defense against it. Such a missile does not depend upon electronic guidance as it approaches its targets, and therefore it cannot be thrown off course by electronic jamming . . . Will the Communists have...