Word: hydrogenic
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...President's announcement that he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb was a decision that most U.S. citizens obviously approved, but about which none could be happy; driven by inexorable forces, the U.S. was setting out to make a weapon that would pale the deadliness of the atomic-fission bomb (see SCIENCE). As events had turned, it was essentially a defensive measure. The Russians could build and doubtless were building their own hydrogen bomb. If undeterred by threat of retaliation in kind, the Russians could deliver it by aircraft almost anywhere in the U.S.; by submarine...
Allies Split. The hydrogen bomb and the story of Communist Fuchs were the developments that seized the headlines. But there were other items in the news that also had prospects of peril. England and the U.S., allies in defense of a common way of life, seemed to be heading down diverging roads in Asia; the Chinese Communists, after a leisurely four days, had accepted Britain's recognition; by harshly treating its consular officials, they had made sure of U.S. hostility. To compound these complications, the Russians reached across Communist China last week to extend official recognition to the Communist...
...warn, with all the solemnity at my command," he said, "that building hydrogen bombs does not promise positive security for the United States; it only promises the negative result of averting, for a few months or years, well-nigh certain catastrophe . . . We are plunged into a truly terrible arms race." His proposal: 1) broadcast the story of U.S. motives and ideals behind the Iron Curtain by boosting the "Whisper of America" to a real, full-throated Voice of America; 2) offer $10 billion a year-which is two-thirds of the U.S. arms budget-for five years, to develop...
...adopt a "wait and see" attitude toward Communist designs on Indo-China and Tibet. Neither Indo-Chinese regime-that of Communist Ho Chi Minh or French-backed Bao Dai-would be recognized by New Delhi. Then the Prime Minister turned to President Truman's decision to make the hydrogen bomb. "If you have come to the conclusion that the world is a pretty bad show," he said, "then let the hydrogen bomb put an end to it. If you want to carry on the world with decency, obviously you will have to put an end to the hydrogen bomb...
...most of the U.S. public the hydrogen bomb was still a direful novelty last week, but to scientists there was little new about it. Long before the discovery of uranium fission they had known that familiar, plentiful hydrogen could make prime nuclear fuel. They had even demonstrated on a laboratory scale some of its nuclear reactions. They could not make the process work practically, but whenever they felt discouraged, they looked up at the shining sun whose radiation, derived from hydrogen, is the vital force of the world...