Word: thermonuclear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appropriate setting for Scientist Libby. As a nuclear scientist on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, he is the man who unwrapped the stark facts about nuclear war. A "thermonuclear weapon" of the type that was exploded by the U.S. in the Pacific last year, said Scientist Libby in his famous "fallout speech" last June, can sprinkle death-dealing radioactive dust over an area of 100,000 square miles. "An area so large," he added dryly, ";that evacuation may be a bit impractical." As the AEC's "vice president in charge of atoms for peace," Libby is the American responsible...
...Chou Enlai, with one slight amendment. The principle of "noninterference in each other's internal affairs" was made more explicit by the addition of the phrase "for any reason of economic, political or ideological character." The communique supported the Soviet plan for a complete ban of atomic and thermonuclear weapons. But the key passage was the declaration that "the legitimate rights of the Chinese People's Republic in regard to Formosa" should be satisfied. Refusal to admit Red China to the U.N., added Bulganin and Nehru, was at the root of many troubles in the Far East...
COLUMNIST WALTER LIPPMANN: WITHIN recent weeks it has beW come clear that all [the] principal [world] powers are in basic agreement on three general propositions. The first is that war, which now means thermonuclear war, is impossible. The second is that while the great powers must not wage war, they cannot now make the concessions. The third proposition is that, unable to fight and unable to settle, they must nevertheless find ways to relax the. most severe and dangerous of the tensions. Under the constraints of the military stalemate, all the principal powers are impelled to stay more or less...
Another subject was the "repression of human and national rights in the satellites." The West must not give the impression that it accepts the indefinitely prolonged enslavement of captive peoples, and wanted the captive peoples to know that. There was also the question of thermonuclear weapons and arms control...
Last month, shortly after Neighbor Britain announced that it would build H-bombs, Premier Edgar Faure announced almost casually that France would follow suit. "If things go on as they are," Faure explained, "there will be a line dividing great and powerful nations . . . that have thermonuclear means, and inferior countries. France cannot take a place among 'second-class' great powers." Faure's decision appealed to Frenchmen's pride, but it threatened to dig too deeply into their pockets. If France wants to join the H-bomb club, warned Faure's own Ministry of Finance, higher...