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Sincerity & Suspicion. Another criticism of Dulles is that his "intransigent" attitude toward the Soviet Union increases the danger of superbomb war. British Socialists and their new spiritual leader, Jawaharlal Nehru, wring their hands whenever Dulles makes a statement defining the struggle with Communism in moral and religious terms...
...been for Lewis Strauss's persistence in 1947, the U.S. might now have no means of detecting the Russian atomic explosion; and 2) had it not been for Strauss's personal conviction about Russian intentions, back in late 1949, the U.S. might have had no thermonuclear superbomb of its own. Conceivably, the new Russian bomb could have been hurled on the world as an unchallengeable ultimatum, could by this week have changed the political balance of power around the world...
...super." The super's vast explosive potentialities were based not on splitting atoms (as with the fission, or A-bomb), but in fusing atoms of one element to form another (e.g., hydrogen into helium) through in tense heat. AEC Physicist Edward Teller figured out in 1945 that a superbomb was theoretically possible. In 1947 he came within one step of working out the theoretical mechanics (at a seminar in Los Alamos attended by Dr. Klaus Fuchs, who was at the time passing information to the Russians). But there the superbomb had rested because nobody (in the U.S.) could mobilize...
Business as Usual. On Oct. 5, Strauss sent a memo to Chairman Lilienthal recommending all-out effort on the superbomb. The Atomic Energy Act had set up a General Advisory Committee of scientists to advise the President and AEC on scientific matters. Strauss urged that the GAC be called into special session to advise the commission how to proceed. On Oct. 29, the GAC met in a regularly scheduled session. After one day's deliberation, it reported its recommendation: the U.S. should not try to build a thermonuclear bomb...
...propaganda," he says, "but very few have heard it as it comes in English direct from Moscow." Whenever he can, Turner juxtaposes the facts of a situation as he knows it with the Soviet version. Although his first show used liberal excerpts from Russian broadcasts on the Soviet superbomb, it is not all somber stuff. He points out that Radio Moscow, for reasons of its own, goes in for such novelties as the American folk song All God's Chillun Got Wings, sung in phonetic English by Russian schoolchildren ("They are just trying to be folksy," he believes...