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...this sort of talk, other equally informed physicists react with astonishment or distaste. They point out that no one knows accurately how much continued radiation is needed to kill a man. There may be preventives or cures. No one knows how H-bombs will work or how soon they can be made to work. Kindly critics say that Brown, Szilard et al. have been led by emotion to confuse the worst possibilities of the future with the sufficiently alarming present. Some, not so kindly, charge that the alarmists, however well-intentioned they may be, are helping to frighten...
...Republicans," he cried, building up to his punch line, "sit around waiting for us to make a proposal. Then they react with an outburst of scare words. They are like a cuttlefish that squirts out a cloud of black ink whenever its slumber is disturbed...
...suggest changes in University policy and to criticize and advise upon innovations which the administration is considering. In the first aspect the Council goes to the administration with student grievances or possible improvements; in the second, the administration comes to the Council to discover how subjects will react to or he affected by proposed changes...
Designing one is not easy. The sun has plenty of time, but a man-made fusion reaction must take place during the small fraction of a second while the temperature generated by the fissioning uranium is still high enough. All the ingredients must be ready to react instantaneously...
Spreading the Uranium. There may be much military importance in two side effects of the new fusion techniques. In fission bombs, a great deal of the uranium is scattered before it can react. But in a hydrogen bomb, even a small one, the ingredients packed around the uranium core could be induced to generate a large number of free neutrons. These would make more of the uranium react, thus stepping up the efficiency of the core's explosion...