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...primary charges brought against Oppenheimer is that he opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb...
There is no reason to believe, however, that the radioactive aftereffect of the hydrogen bomb cannot be increased, if thai is what the designers want to do. First step would be the addition of an ingredient that yields free neutrons (L17 might be a good one). Next step would be to surround the bomb with 3 casing of an element that absorbs neutrons and becomes radioactive. Such a doctored H-bomb might poison a whole country...
...bomb. It looks like too ready a tool of destruction. They have only one reassuring opinion. At the present state of the art, they say, there is no chance that even the most monstrous bomb will get out of control, set fire to the ocean's hydrogen and turn the earth into a short-lived star. The H-bomb's ingredients must be pure and carefully selected, but the ocean is a mess of many nonreactive elements. Less than one-ninth of it is hydrogen, and the safe kind of hydrogen at that...
...press got its first look at the movie film of the first hydrogen bomb blast at Eniwetok in 1952 (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), it also got a blunt warning. The 175 Washington newsmen who gathered in the Department of the Interior's auditorium were told that the H-bomb pictures and descriptions of them were not to be released until April 7-a full week away-so that magazines and newsreel producers would get an even break with the daily press, radio and TV. But within 24 hours after the briefing, H-bomb pictures and descriptive stories were spread over...
...said anything about it. Last week's col umn, said Pearson, was written only be cause "I didn't have anything better to write about," and was sent out two days before the briefing. It was set in type in many papers before the hydrogen film Was shown to other newsmen. Snapped Pear son : "Just because I pulled an April Fool scoop on them is no reason for their accusations." Actually, Pearson's column caused no excitement in newspaper offices when it came in. Almost all of his syndicate customers ran it in its usual position...