Word: superbombs
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...only a "crash program" of H-bomb production in 1949. Said the board, after digging through documentary evidence: "The board does not believe that Dr. Oppenheimer was entirely candid . . . in attempting to establish this impression. The record reflects that Dr. Oppenheimer [then] expressed his opinion in writing: 'The superbomb should never be produced...
High-level Washington hummed with the rumor that the U.S. had picked up new aerial samples of a second Russian superbomb explosion-a blast which, said the rumor, indicated that the Soviet Union may well have found a short cut to a superbomb that is smaller and more easily delivered than...
Then, last August 1953, thanks in part to the aid and knowledge of Bruno Pontecorvo, the Russians set off a superbomb explosion on the Aksu River. The Italian-born physicist and friend of MacLean was suddenly one of the most honored figures in Russia. When he added his plea to that of MacLean's, the Communists no longer denied him. Donald wrote Melinda, and soon the MacLean family was on its way to the ten-room villa they now occupy as the wife and children of a top-ranking Red bureaucrat...
...World War II would stand four inches high; the Nagasaki-Hiroshima atomic bomb would be a 1,666-ft. column, more than three times the height of the Washington monument; the "conventional" atomic bomb of today would tower 4,998 ft. high; and the power of the thermonuclear superbomb, similarly expressed, would be represented by a column soaring 63 miles into...
...Economic Report: "Although there are forces within the economy which may be moving downward, none of them appear either formidable or powerfully controlling." Even the. predicted cuts in Government spending were turning out to be smaller than anticipated and the growing concern over Russia's possession of the superbomb seemed to guarantee no further cutbacks in the defense budget. With uncertainty over the arms program out of the way-and an easing of credit already taking place-it looked as if the immediate prospect was less one of deflation than a moderate amount of "reflation...