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President Peron claimed that his scientists have produced atomic energy by "thermonuclear reactions" in a manner similar to the way "the sun releases atomic energy" and that they did not use uranium in the process...
...Atomic Age scientists knew about this "thermonuclear reaction," but could not copy it because they had no way of approaching the temperature of the sun's interior. They found the way on July 16, 1945, when the first uranium bomb exploded at Alamogordo, N. Mex. For an instant the heart of the bomb was hot enough to make hydrogen fuse into helium. Ever since, a hydrogen bomb has been possible...
Inside the stars, where the temperature may reach a "scorching" 20 million degrees centigrade, thermonuclear reactions are constantly at work changing hydrogen into helium. The University of Chicago's Dr. Otto Struve, head of the 42-man U.S. delegation, repeated a solemn prediction: in 3 billion years some stars will have burned up most of their hydrogen, leaving the helium "as 'ashes' of this stupendous nuclear transformation furnace...