Word: hydrogenating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Thomas Edward Murray, 69, outspoken Democratic member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1950-57), who upheld the AEC's 4-1 "no confidence" vote against Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1954, fought for Government development of atomic power plants, production of smaller nuclear weapons, cessation of hydrogen bomb tests, but last year urged the U.S. to resume underground tests to create a relatively "clean" neutron bomb as a "third-generation" weapon; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A leading Roman Catholic layman knighted twice by the church and father of eleven children, Murray...
...missile, the efficiency of the engine is limited by the quality of its fuel. And as chemically fueled engines approach peak efficiency, the fuel they require becomes increasingly difficult to manage. But a nuclear rocket-in which hard-to-handle hydrogen will be heated by an atomic reactor-would offer ample recompense for its built-in problems. Its thrust, Seaborg explained, would be far greater than that available from any combination of chemical fuels; it would open the way to space voyages impossible with any other missile...
...Rover (nuclear rocket) program, Seaborg said, has already tested a ground-bound model. Kiwi-A. It has demonstrated that a nuclear reactor can heat a flow of high-pressure gaseous hydrogen to proper operating temperature and can keep in operation as long as needed in a space vehicle. The more advanced Kiwi-B. which will be tested soon in Nevada, will use liquid hydrogen for its propellant...
...record an aerial dogfight between two World War I relics, the crash of a sprung gallows trap, the whack of a guillotine blade against the block. And his enduring dream is to catch on his own high-fidelity equipment the mid-century's ultimate sound-an exploding hydrogen bomb...
...Whose 1931 prizewinning discovery, deuterium (heavy hydrogen), became a vital component of the hydrogen bomb...