Word: hydrogenized
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...opening plenary session of the ADA convention Schlesinger Jr. urged the postponement of construction of the new hydrogen bomb until another attempt had been made to reach agreement with the Soviet Union on control of atomic weapons...
Like a patient sitting in a doctor's anteroom while the specialists discuss his case, the U.S. public last week sat outside while the President, his military, scientific and diplomatic advisers debated whether to construct the hydrogen bomb, the most powerful explosive weapon the world has yet dreamed...
There were indications that the President had all but decided to signal a go-ahead to the scientists. If they were successful-as they believed they might be-the H-bomb would draw on the sun's method of transforming hydrogen into helium (TIME, Jan. 16) to produce an explosion dwarfing the atomic bomb blasts loosed at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Bikini, Eniwetok. One such H-bomb might spread destruction over a radius of ten miles...
...survival doubted the deep wisdom of exploring every U.N. byway or even, if there were the slightest chance that it would do any good, of discussing the subject with Stalin (the President denied that he was planning a direct approach to the Russians). But since the principle of the hydrogen bomb was also known to the Russians, temporizing was risky and might be fatal. The simple fact, unpleasant though it might be, was that if the Russians are likely to build an H-bomb, the U.S. will have to build...
Medieval man knew of only four elements-earth, air, fire and water. By 1940, scientists knew of 92 elements-ranging from lightweight hydrogen, whose atom has only one electron, to heavy uranium, with 92 electrons. Many chemists thought that their long search for elements was ended, and then the University of California's powerful cyclotron got busy...