Word: hydrogenic
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...U.S.S.R.," said Nikita Khrushchev, "cannot remain indifferent to what is happening in the Near and Middle East in the immediate vicinity of its frontiers . . . We know that the U.S.A. has atomic and hydrogen bombs. We know that you have an Air Force and a Navy. But you well know that the U.S.S.R. also has atom and hydrogen bombs . . . and ballistic rockets of all types, including intercontinental ones...
...lacy pattern of little round balls in the background of this week's cover is from a deoxyribo-nucleic-acid molecule model built at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute. The grey balls represent carbon atoms; blue is phosphorous; yellow is nitrogen; red is oxygen; white is hydrogen. Molecules do not look like this, of course. The atoms in them are much too small to be seen, even with an electron microscope. The pattern shown is a small part, somewhat simplified, of the DNA molecule, which geneticists now believe is the carrier of heredity and the chemical master...
...that in September 1949 spotted the first Communist atomic blast, put the free world on guard. In October 1949, against the objection of all four of his fellow AECommissioners and all eight of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's General Advisory Committee, he recommended the development of the U.S. hydrogen bomb. He convinced AECommissioner Gordon Dean, while heavy support piled in from Secretary of State Dean Acheson and the Pentagon. After four agonizing months, on Jan. 31, 1950, President Truman announced that he had ordered work on the H-bomb begun. Lewis Strauss's key contributions as Dwight Eisenhower...
York Times, whose editorial board had long seen more in Lewis Strauss than its Washington reporters, hurled forth a weighty "WELL DONE! ... It is terrifying to think what the Soviets might have done with the hydrogen bomb if they had been the first to develop...
Controlled nuclear fusion may be farther away than had been hoped. Last week Dr. B.FJ. Schonland, director of Britain's Atomic Energy Research Establishment, announced that the neutrons emitted from the famous ZETA fusion apparatus (TIME, Feb. 3) did not come from fusion of heavy hydrogen atoms at uniform high temperature. As the U.S.'s Atomic Energy Commission had indicated, they were apparently a result of collisions of high-velocity atoms with low-velocity ones. Experts in fusion techniques do not class this action as real thermonuclear fusion...