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Last week Jan H. Oort of Leyden University Observatory told how Dutch astronomers have been probing the nucleus of the home galaxy with the powerful new tool of radio astronomy. The commonest element in the universe is hydrogen, which exists both in the stars and among them. When it is diffuse, it sends out radio waves 21 centimeters long that permit radio astronomers to spot clouds of hydrogen drifting among the stars. Their speed can be measured by a slight shortening (for approach) or lengthening (for recession) in the length of the radio waves that come from them...
...several cities, the favorite theory was that radioactive particles from the latest hydrogen-bomb explosion were falling upon the earth. This explanation was promptly exploded when Geiger counter tests found no radioactive material in the pockmarks...
...crash program was based on the conviction, to which technical considerations as well as others contributed, that because of our overall situation at that time such a program might weaken rather than strengthen the position of the U.S. ... I never urged anyone not to work on the hydrogen-bomb project...
...cloud itself was kind of rough," wrote a sailor, "yet it looked smooth - something like a cauliflower." Poets were not invited to Operation Ivy to witness the dawn of the hydrogen age, so it was as a cauliflower that the H-bomb's first cloud was trademarked last week - a realistic if nonpoetic progression in vegetables from the A-bomb's first mushroom...
...That Oppenheimer, as chairman of the General Advisory Committee to the AEC, strongly opposed the development in 1949 of the hydrogen bomb, and lobbied against it even after President Truman gave the go-ahead order...