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...make heroes of the exponents of an eye-for-an-eye philosophy that could incinerate the world? Hasn't history proved that violence can only beget violence? Can we afford this luxury of revenge in a thermonuclear...
...caused by his invention of dynamite and smokeless gunpowder. Of all the 72 recipients of the prize since 1901, probably none comes closer than Sakharov to the spirit of Nobel's bequest. The father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Sakharov went on to become an indefatigable fighter for thermonuclear disarmament and democracy in the U.S.S.R. The citation by the Nobel committee in Oslo called him "a firm believer in the brotherhood of man, in genuine coexistence, as the only way to save mankind ... As a nuclear physicist," the citation continued, "he has, with his special insight and responsibility, been...
...something new-or newer, anyway. A dotty old bomb expert concocts a superbomb that he uses to blackmail an entire city. About 20 years ago it was called Seven Days to Noon. The city was London, and the scientist attempting to stop construction of atomic weapons threatened everyone with thermonuclear destruction if his demands were not met. In the movie's own stiff and militaristic terms, this was enough to establish the scientist's madness. Preparedness was quite the thing back then, and anyone who wanted to stop the arms race was probably round the bend. Considered today...
This is one of a currently fashionable Hollywood genre known as the disaster movie (TIME, June 10). No one, it seems, is left alive on earth - dat ole debble thermonuclear disaster (shades of On the Beach and The World, the Flesh and the Devil) has struck again. Deep in a cave, eleven computer-selected citizens, each with some tal ent useful to get the world spinning again, await word that the radiation level on the surface is survivable. Meantime, they share a coed dorm, done up by a grateful government in its most lavish 2001 style. A prerecorded television tape...
True Reaction. KMS had no such reservations about its work. It claimed to have produced true thermonuclear reactions in its various pellets. But when scientists looked a little closer at KMS's own disclosures, they noted an apparent inconsistency. In a letter to stockholders, KMS conceded that the experiments produced only a small number of neutrons-between...