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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...
...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...
...Teutonic version of Confidential magazine. Editorially, it stood against almost everything and for almost nothing-except, perhaps, recognition of East Germany, which it has frequently proposed. Never particularly friendly to the U.S., Der Spiegel blasted President Kennedy's action on Cuba as hypocritical, weak, and an incitement to thermonuclear...