Word: hydrogenate
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Premier Malenkov's announcement that Russia has the hydrogen bomb was aimed at the U.S., and as a verbal bombshell it was something of a dud. In Washington there was none of the ashen-faced confusion that followed the discovery, in 1949, that the Russians had exploded an atomic bomb. President Eisenhower heard the news and an hour later took off for Denver and vacation without comment...
...combine with one another to form rings and chains. Nitrogen atoms will do the same thing to a limited extent, but making nitrogen atoms link up with one another is extremely difficult on more than a laboratory scale. Hydrazine, which has two linked nitrogen atoms each attached to two hydrogen atoms, is the first of these linked "hydronitrogens" that has been produced outside the laboratory in appreciable quantities...
...rocket a powerful push. In the U.S., hydrazine (which is poisonous and blows up if improperly handled) will be used in rocket fuels, but in the long run it will be more important in chemical synthesis. Here the possibilities are almost endless. Each of hydrazine's four hydrogen atoms is highly reactive; each can be replaced, sometimes in many ways, with almost any organic molecule. Or the hydrazine molecule can be made to act as a chemical link, each end of it attached to a different organic molecule. This permits chemists to create innumerable new substances, many of which...
...five-man AEC. Often disturbed by his colleagues' ideas on atomic security, e.g., the decision to give radioactive isotopes to Norway, Strauss became a kind of one-man opposition party within the commission. To Dissenter Strauss, more than any other man, the U.S. owes its possession of the hydrogen bomb. In 1950, after a long fight against the combined forces of prestige-heavy atomic scientists such as Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and all other Atomic Energy commissioners save Gordon Dean, Strauss persuaded Harry Truman that the U.S. should proceed with construction of the H-bomb...
Bridges: Do you believe in development of the hydrogen bomb...