Word: thermonuclear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first thermonuclear tests in the Pacific in 1951 had only a distant bearing on missiles. The early hydrogen devices were not bombs. Later models became droppable bombs, but they were still much too heavy. Convair, nevertheless, was given a contract for a limited amount of work on an intercontinental missile-just in case...
...Thermonuclear Breakthrough. Gardner's survey, completed in early 1954, covered the missile front, but dominating its conclusions was a carefully reasoned forecast by the nuclear physicists. In a relatively few years, predicted Von Neumann and his associates after long sessions with their calculating machines, thermonuclear explosives would be light and handy enough to be carried by long-range missiles of reasonable size...
...Falcon, Corporal. Regulus, Matador and Honest John. The 1,000-to-1,500 mile range Intermediate Range Ballistics Missile with nuclear warhead, still on the drawing boards, would probably be the main new development. Research would also be heavily concentrated on the Intercontinental Ballistics Missile, which may have a thermonuclear warhead. Wilson cautioned that the I.C.B.M. is still at least five years away...
...lined with Red army soldiers and tens of thousands of dark-clad Muscovites, who stood in the sub-zero cold, craning their necks for a glimpse of the official entourage. Among those welcoming the "peacemakers" were a number of top-level bureaucrats just back from viewing a series of thermonuclear explosions * in north Siberia. Together they all piled into the Kremlin to get ready for this week's special meeting of the Supreme Soviet. Though the welcome was vast, it was silent; no one in the streets cheered...
...levels of technical knowledge, all came to conclusions quite similar to Murray's own: that these weapons represent a danger of unprecedented magnitude to the survival of mankind -and that until an effective system of international control is established it would be folly to open the U.S. to thermonuclear attack by not being better armed in this respect than the Communists...