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...built, but nothing can be done to build it until we are free to resume nuclear testing." Dodd hinted that the Russians may soon get the neutron bomb. "At that point," he warned, "we might find ourselves confronted with the terrible choice between surrender and all-out thermonuclear...
...Europe must be accomplished this year," he said. And after the U.S.S.R. signs its peace treaty with puppet East Germany, the East German government can cut off the supply corridors to West Berlin if it pleases. Any Western attempt to force passage to West Berlin "would mean war-and thermonuclear war at that...
...smelled like hell for a week." Later, on the nights when he is not out speaking, Goldwater may listen to records (New Orleans jazz) on a booming stereo rig he wired for himself, or settle down for some background reading. Current bedside choices: Herman Kahn's On Thermonuclear War, Plato's Republic...
Before the start of World War II, Bethe was one of the few men in the U.S., or anywhere else, who understood the infinite implications of nuclear physics. His interests ranged from the creation of matter out of gamma rays to an explanation of the thermonuclear reactions from which the sun and the stars get their energy. When war started, he was soon in the thick of the scientific battle. He served first at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, then went to Los Alamos to head the theoretical physics division of the atom bomb project. Had Hitler's empire...
...Richard F. Post, of the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, reported that a "magnetic mirror" machine, playfully called Toy Top III, may soon make possible a controlled (nonexplosive) thermonuclear reaction. In the past, plasma formed by magnetic squeezing and heating of heavy hydrogen was too unstable to reach and maintain the high temperature necessary for a thermonuclear reaction. By using only two of Toy Top's three stages, said Post, plasma was confined in a "magnetic bottle" for one-thousandth of a second at a temperature of 40 million degrees centigrade. Post hopes that by using...