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President Eisenhower at his weekly press conference called upon a calm-voiced guest to give the news, and Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, made his report sound as matter-of-fact as the minutes of a previous meeting. Yet there was no headline big enough to measure the implications of what Strauss...
...nine-minute prepared statement, Strauss noted that "there is good reason to believe" that the Russians had gone to work on a thermonuclear bomb "substantially before we did . . . We now fully know we possess no monopoly of capability in this awesome field." The current series of U.S. H-bomb tests had thus far been successful "and enormous potential has been added to our military posture." As to the reports that the March 1 blast (TIME. March 22) had got out of hand, no such thing was true-"the yield was about double that of the calculated estimate-a margin...
Educated Guesses. A few moments after Strauss had finished his statement, he got into a question & answer exchange with reporters-an exchange memorable for its substance and for its tone of understatement...
...Strauss: Well, the nature of an H-bomb is that, in effect, it can be made to be as large as you wish, as large as the military requirement demands, that is to say, an H-bomb can be made as-large enough to take out a city...
...undergraduate at Oxford was “how to cope with being asked to read 10 or more books a week.” I hope that my time at Harvard gives me something even better. Thomas B. Dolinger ’09, a Crimson editorial comper, lives in Strauss hall...