Word: hydrogenate
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...forces on the side of human freedom," the U.S. would have to reach a clear-cut decision as to what it was going to do to prevent the Communists from breaking up the strengthening process. Practically, that decision was more important than whether the U.S. would use a hydrogen bomb. If it burked such practical decisions as those involved at Saigon, the U.S. could be sure that a situation would arise in which a hydrogen bomb would be used-and not necessarily...
Many U.S. scientists, including those not connected with military research, are afraid to talk about the hydrogen bomb. They have seen too many colleagues pilloried for discussing "classified information," even though it may have been known for years to all the scientific world...
...current issue the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, for once feeling no such fears, carries an article which describes in detail and with figures the basic principles of the hydrogen bomb. It tells how the speeding fission fragments of exploding uranium will impart high velocity to light atoms around them, causing them to "fuse," and release enormous amounts of energy...
...Police Boss Beria and two others of the Politburo's hierarchs, Deputy Premiers Anastas Mikoyan and Andrei Andreev,* echoed Malenkov's bid. They were followed next day by Molotov, who first held out the olive branch, then knouted the West for "blackmail . . . with the so-called hydrogen atomic bomb, which does not exist in fact." He wound up by promising that a new world war would "sweep away imperialism from the world." Much to the outside world's surprise, Number 1 himself, who usually brings the election ritual to its climax, remained silent...
...prophets of hydrogen Doomsday (TIME, March 6) got no support from David E. Lilienthal, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and a man well qualified to judge. Speaking last week at New York's Town Hall about the four atomic scientists who predicted the death of the human race in a radiation-poisoned world, Lilienthal said...