Word: hydrogenate
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...building a generator nearly twice as powerful as any built before, without any increase in size. Formerly generator coils, which revolve almost as fast as a pistol bullet travels, would burn out if the current were increased above 135,000 kw. But Westinghouse, using hollow coils cooled by hydrogen gas, was able to almost double the capacity without increasing the size. (TVA is now spending $9,500,000 for two of these 250,000-kw. giants...
...hydrogen bomb...
...Magnitude. "From now on," said Truman, in implied admission that the U.S. has the hydrogen bomb, "man moves into a new era of destructive power, capable of creating explosions of a new order of magnitude, dwarfing the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . . . The war of the future would be one in which man could extinguish millions of lives at one blow, demolish the great cities of the world, wipe out the cultural achievements of the past-and destroy the very structure of civilization . . . Such a war is not a possible policy for rational men. We know this...
Harry Truman's Administration proved that there simply is no easy, happy ending flowing from persuasion or negotiation with Communism. If, indeed, the hydrogen bomb turns out to be big enough to threaten total destruction of aggressive Communism and outdate all old lessons, then perhaps it is time to talk in plain, unmistakable terms about the bomb (see below) before the Russians .can use the same terms in talking back...
...Savannah River Valley, the $1.5 billion hydrogen-bomb plant caused Barnwell, S.C. to quintuple its population (from 2,500 to 13,000). A mobile city of 1,200 trailers sprang up almost overnight. In nearby Augusta, Ga., whose population shot from 71,040 to 150,000 in two years, it was easy to forget the plant's grim purpose in the flood of new jobs it brought. When White's Department Store hung out a Christmas sign, "Santa Claus Is Here!", Reporter Esther Young of the Augusta Chronicle cracked: "Why, everybody knows that Santa Claus is over...