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...Radius. Whatever the technological facts, China's spectacular last week did little to alter the balance of raw thermonuclear power in the world. To be sure, a slight improvement...
...working to bypass the bomber stage and are pouring their energies into producing rocket-deliverable hydrogen warheads. Though U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara maintains that the Chinese will not have a functioning ICBM until 1975, many Hong Kong China-watchers believe that Peking will have full-fledged ICBM thermonuclear capability by 1970 or 1971. "They're never going to be able to challenge the U.S. or the Soviets in a nuclear shoot-out," says one, "but within a few years they're going to have enough on the shelf-and sufficient means to deliver it-to scare hell...
...bomb was not H. Seismographs monitoring the Chinese test site in Sinkiang province indicated a wallop of only 130 kilotons. The Atomic Energy Commission found traces of lithium 6, a thermonuclear material right enough, but the major element in the explosion was enriched uranium-the same as in Peking's two earlier tests. China's first H-bomb will probably be a triple-stage fission-fusion-fission monster of the same "dirty" quality as the giant Khrushchevian 40-megaton bombs that were exploded prior to the 1963 test ban. Those bombs are too big to be delivered...
...Rusk fails to observe the fact that Khrushchev, in a thermonuclear age, was operating under different conditions than Hitler. Had Chamberlain opposed Hitler at Munich, there very likely would have been war just the same. There may be important lessons to be learned from Munich, but Rusk's superficial analysis does not supply them...
...formulate a God, he seems to be everything from a celestial gas to a kind of invisible honorary president "out there" in space, well beyond range of the astronauts. A young Washington scientist suggests that "God, if anything, is hydrogen and carbon. Then again, he might be thermonuclear fission, since that's what makes life on this planet possible." To a streetwalker in Tel Aviv...