Word: hydrogenate
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Newspapers reported a revealing conversation last week when a high government official called to check a statement with the Atomic Energy Commission. Instructed by President Eisenhower to clear all remarks on defense with the Commission, the official asked for the authorized answer to "How powerful a hydrogen bomb can Russia drop...
...with reports that Russia has the secret of hydrogen power, we must re-examine our entire philosophy of defense. Scientists are already working on a superhydrogen bomb, yet by now it should be clear that bombs of any size can never serve as a lone defense...
...President has said that we must avoid a panic in this country over the prospect of hydrogen warfare, and he is right. But here again there is a large gap between knowledge and panic; Americans have in the past absorbed defense education without falling into blinding fear. The administration has perhaps dwelt too long on the fable of the boy who cried wolf without reason and needlessly alarmed his neighbors. It would be well to consider also the boy who saw the wolf but neglected to cry out; he was devoured quickly and silently...
...industry, the largest automotive factories . . . and the most ingenious working force in the world, we would indubitably have lost the second World War. Were we significantly weaker today in technical skills, in great mills and factories and the scientific knowledge which gave us priority with the atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb, all Western
...meant just one thing: the U.S. must get to work, on a "crash" basis, on building the "super." The super's vast explosive potentialities were based not on splitting atoms (as with the fission, or A-bomb), but in fusing atoms of one element to form another (e.g., hydrogen into helium) through in tense heat. AEC Physicist Edward Teller figured out in 1945 that a superbomb was theoretically possible. In 1947 he came within one step of working out the theoretical mechanics (at a seminar in Los Alamos attended by Dr. Klaus Fuchs, who was at the time passing...