Word: thermonuclear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robb: Now I have a note here, Doctor, that you testified that there was a surprising unanimity, I believe that was your expression, at the GAC meeting of October 29, 1949, that the United States ought not to take the initiative at that time in an all-out thermonuclear program. Am I correct in my understanding of your testimony...
...letter Dr. Seaborg had said that he "would have to hear some good arguments before I could take on sufficient courage to recommend not going toward" a thermonuclear program. He noted that Dr. Ernest 0. Lawrence, director of the radiation laboratory at the University of California, was already proposing to get the program under way. If the GAC were asked to comment on the proposal, he wrote, "It seems to me clearly we should heartily endorse it." Despite this sharp exception to the GAC's "unanimous" stand, Dr. Oppenheimer originally had said that he did not recall the letter...
...decade and perhaps longer to erect an industrial base equal to the demands of equipping its own armed forces with Chinese-made tanks, artillery and aircraft. Is it in Russia's plans to let Red China do that? China cannot be one of the powers of the thermonuclear age without thermonuclear weapons. Will Russia let Red China build them? The possibilities of cleavage may not happen in Mao's generation, for what binds two sets of international gangsters together is a mutual advantage greater than the friction which might drive them apart. The possibilities of split are there...
...more than a year, the public heard only rumors and skimpy statistics about Operation Ivy, the first full-dress thermonuclear explosion. Then, last winter, the U.S. Government decided to release the full story. President Eisen hower, speaking of atomic development, told the United Nations that "the peoples of the world . . . must be armed with the significant facts of today's existence." The shapes and colors of Operation Ivy are part of the story which the Government is gradually releasing. Three weeks ago, the press published some Statistics about the blast, along with black and white photographs. Some still Cuts...
...Usual Aim. Like so many of the ostensibly clumsy swipes which Vyacheslav Molotov makes with his diplomatic hammer & sickle, this one had a method, and a danger to it. In a week when many of the U.S.'s allies seemed politically mesmerized by the mushrooming cloud of the thermonuclear bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Molotov adroitly played on man's justified concern over the power he now holds in his arsenals: "There can be no doubt that the employment of atomic and hydrogen weapons in a war . . . would mean the wholesale annihilation of civilians and the destruction...