Word: thermonuclear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conventional rearmament is virtually complete. Henceforth, SHAPE will concentrate on what it calls the "New Approach." Britain's Viscount Montgomery explained it in a recent speech: "I want to make it absolutely clear that we at SHAPE are basing all our operational planning on using atomic and thermonuclear weapons in our defense. It is no longer a question of 'They may be used.' It is very definitely, 'They will be used-if we are attacked...
...Moscow should decide some mid night to attack the U.S., 900 Soviet heavy bombers could be over North America by dawn. Some 300 Red planes, manned by elite crews and loaded with nuclear or thermonuclear bombs, would streak toward vital U.S. target areas. The others, carrying TNT and fire bombs, would serve to divert and confuse U.S. defenses...
...serious defects: ¶ The Skysweeper guns cannot shoot fast enough to hit a supersonic jet or far enough to defend a target, as the gun's range is shorter than the radius of H-bomb destruction. Any bomber within gun range is already close enough to inflict ruinous thermonuclear damage. The Nike rocket has 1,500,000 parts, is complex and unpredictable. Better guided missiles and more launching sites are necessary...
...short, unexcited paper presented to the French Academy of Sciences has provoked a storm of foreboding in the French press and public. Written by physicist Charles-Noel Martin and sponsored by the Nobel Prizewinning Prince Louis de Broglie, it is entitled "On the Cumulative Effects of Thermonuclear [Hydrogen] Explosions on the Surface of the Globe...
...strongest attacks came from Dr. Norris Bradbury, since 1945 head of the Los Alamos laboratories. Resenting the Shepley-Blair charge that Los Alamos had "dragged its feet" on thermonuclear development, Bradbury said that this work from 1946 on was pursued with "the maximum appropriate emphasis," and that the bomb was in fact produced probably as fast as it could have been. Does this mean that the whole Washington struggle described by Shepley and Blair was nonexistent or irrelevant? Or that the Washington struggle was to decide whether to change the appropriate emphasis? Certainly. Oppenheimer, Teller and other participants...