Word: thermonuclear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later, Truman's committee met. Tensely, they discussed the chance that the Russians, briefed by Fuchs, might have a start in thermonuclear development. Acheson and Johnson voted to recommend full speed ahead. Lilienthal voted against. That afternoon President Truman announced his decision to go ahead with the H-bomb...
...TIME men who played a major part in this area of reporting are Washington Bureau Chief James Shepley and Correspondent Clay Blair Jr. Month after month they pursued the story of nuclear and thermonuclear energy. Research for TIME stories led through the long halls of the Pentagon, the Atomic Energy Commission, the byways of the National Security Council, the White House and Congress. It was a continuing report on the men, the science, the strategy and the politics involved. Some stories were short, some full-length cover stories, on men such as AEC Chairmen Lilienthal, Dean and Strauss, on Scientist...
When Lieut. General Elwood Ricardo Quesada retired from the Air Force in 1951, he had behind him 25 years of service and the experience of commanding the AEC's first thermonuclear tests at Eniwetok (TIME, April 2, 1951). Last week "Pete" Quesada, now 50 and a Lockheed Aircraft Corp. vice president, got a chance to put both his military and scientific knowledge to good use. In Burbank, Calif., Lockheed announced that it was spending $10 million to set up a new scientific laboratory for advanced research by its missiles division. As the lab's boss, Airman Quesada will...
Lockheed's big project will be dedicated to what Quesada calls "the delivery problem." Says he: "Today we can build a thermonuclear weapon with as much yield as we want. The problem is how to get the damn thing there." To find the answer. Quesada will tap 200 of the country's top scientists, give them absolutely free reign to wander through the problem at an 80-acre laboratory in Van Nuys, have them delve into theoretical electronics and upper-air travel. He will pay high salaries, encourage them to soak up academic atmosphere by letting them teach...
...base ties down, in expensive, debilitating idleness, 80,000 of Britain's best troops, some of whom might be used better in Malaya and elsewhere. The 5,000-sq. mi. area, crammed with men and materiel, is a sitting duck for a thermonuclear attack; the Queen's Middle East forces would be deployed in Libya, Cyprus and Jordan...