Word: hydrogenic
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...press-once a quiet, timeless ritual-now has all the excitement of a city room covering a fast-breaking, big news story. Articles on the uproar in Iran are jammed in at press time, issues are held to make them more timely, reports on the United Nations, Korea and hydrogen bomb replace such old Punch standbys as essays on art colleges, traveling theaters or poems about water wagtails. Recently, when Tito came to London, Punch rebelled against treating Communist Tito with the usual diplomatic amenities, printed the harshest comment in the British press on his visit...
Such negative protection is now the principal insurance which the U.S. has against an attack by Soviet strategic bombers. Last week the Russians announced that they have set off a hydrogen bomb explosion. The U.S. Government, within a few hours, confirmed that this was so.* In Washington, Representative W. Sterling Cole called his Joint Atomic Energy Committee together for a briefing by CIA experts on what they knew of the Russian explosion. President Eisenhower, in New York for a one-day visit, conferred with Chairman Lewis Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission and White House Psychological Warfare Adviser...
Administration leaders made no wild or hasty pronouncements about the effect of the new Russian hydrogen power, but their concern was very real. Given the enormous destructive potency of the atom and hydrogen bombs, and the knowledge that Russia has solved the principle of both, there can be only fleeting comfort from the fact that the U.S. stockpile of bombs is currently bigger than the Russian. If X number of bombs will cripple a nation, it will be of small importance whether the U.S. has X plus 2,000 and the Russians have only X plus...
...there really a Russian H-bomb? High-flying U.S. airplanes continually monitor the upper air to collect telltale evidence of atomic explosions. They had reported no evidence, as yet, of a Soviet hydrogen explosion. But the handful of men who know the most about hydrogen bombs (and cannot forget that an entire Pacific island disappeared when the U.S. successfully exploded an experimental model last November) were prepared to assume that the Russians have the H-bomb secret. The U.S. atomic scientists have, in fact, been waiting for the Russian H-bomb ever since they learned of the treachery of Communist...
...foreign diplomats and newspaper correspondents, looking down on the assembly from their semicircular loges, fastened most eagerly on one Malenkov statement: "The U.S. has no monopoly in the production of the hydrogen bomb" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But that was not what pudgy Premier Malenkov devoted most of his speech to, nor what his hearers inside Russia seemed to get most satisfaction from (Communist papers the world over played down the H-bomb announcement). Still untried as leader, five months after Stalin's death, Malenkov sought to establish himself as the Consumer's Friend. He fairly crooned over prosperity...