Word: thermonuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nikita Khrushchev, to whose realistic appraisal of the totality of thermonuclear warfare and respect for human life you and I, as well as a billion others in the northern hemisphere, owe an expression of gratitude that we are still alive...
...atomic attack is launched against the U.S., the U.S. will not necessarily unleash all of its thermonuclear power in return. The Kennedy Administration contends that power could be used selectively "so that there will be a way to stop a war before all of the destruction of which both sides are capable has been wrought." One byproduct of this theory is that it should ease the deep U.S. dread-as demonstrated by the bestselling success of the novel Fail-Safe-that such a war could start by mistake...
...genius who led the U.S. in its race to develop the H-bomb ahead of the Russians, reported on the progress of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Plowshare, exploring peaceful applications of nuclear explosions. He told of a Plowshare test in Nevada last summer in which a thermonuclear device with a power of 100 kilotons (equivalent to 100,000 tons of TNT) was exploded underground, creating in a few seconds a crater 1,200 ft. wide and 320 ft. deep. Such explosions, he said, could be used to make harbors and canals, remove earth and rock covering mineral...
...Cuba the Soviet boss sounded far more belligerent than his later actions. He admitted that Soviet thermonuclear warheads were in Cuba-although next day, Oct. 25, in the United Nations. Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin was still publicly denying U.S. charges. Inevitably, Khrushchev illustrated a point with an anecdote. U.S.-Cuban relations reminded him of a man who came upon hard times and found it necessary to live with a goat; the man was uncomfortable, but it soon became a way of life. Cuba, said Khrushchev, was the U.S.'s goat. "You are not happy about...
Informed that he had won the $50,000 Enrico Fermi Award "for his leadership in thermonuclear research," Dr. Edward Teller, 54, who dislikes being called the father of the hydrogen bomb, had just one request. "I would appreciate it," he said, "since this for me is a nice occasion, that you refrain from calling me the father of anything...