Word: hydrogenate
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...hydrogen bomb tests, he told the House of Commons, "increase the chances of world peace more than the chances of war." In one of his most moving performances, the soon-to-retire, old (79) Prime Minister stepped forward to dam a flood of justified concern and political alarm which had hit Britain in the wake of the U.S. thermonuclear experiments...
...long as the U.S. stays ahead of the Communists in the search for more powerful weapons, Churchill continued, the hydrogen bomb will be a deterrent to war. The U.S. advantage also gives "time, though not too much time, to consider the problems which now confront us . . . and to talk them over in their new proportions...
...hydrogen bomb," said he, "carries us into dimensions which have never confronted practical human thought and have been confined to the realms of fantasy and imagination . . . We do not know what the Soviets are doing inside their vast ocean of land, [but] it does not follow that the H-bomb is particularly favorable to them. Their enormous . . . territory, which seemed to limit the atom bomb ... is no longer likely to give the same immunity to the far wider effects of the hydrogen bomb and the clouds of radioactive dust and vapors to which it gives rise...
...United States withdrew from Europe altogether-as well she might-with her three-quarter circle of hydrogen bases already spread around the globe, she would face Russia alone," said Sir Winston, "as she certainly could. I cannot doubt that war in those circumstances would be nearer than it is today, when the anxiety of the United States-to their abiding honor-is so largely centered on the freedom and safety of Western Europe and the British Isles...
...Boston Herald reported yesterday that radioactive ashes from the recent hydrogen bomb explosion in the Pacific were already being blown into the Boston area by high winds...