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...commander of the alert crew that he relieved, and received the Positive Control envelope (containing Fail Safe procedures, codes, frequencies) and the black combat data box (target information, maps, radar photos). Signing for it in the presence of a supervising officer, Bulli, 37, now legally assumed responsibility for the thermonuclear bomb in the bay. The spring was drawn: Plane 264 was ready to roll, had a full load of fuel and a multimegaton bomb aboard that is equal in force to ten Atlas ICBMs, or to the sum of all the bombs dropped on Europe by all the Allied planes...
...heart attack; in Moscow. The first Soviet atomic explosion came as a shock to the West largely because it was ignorant of the years of preparation of Kurchatov and his colleagues. Kurchatov, in fact, boasted that Russia invented the first real hydrogen bomb, since the thermonuclear device exploded earlier by the U.S. was too large to serve as a weapon...
...CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ, by Walter M. Miller Jr. (320 pp.; Lippincott; $4.95), belongs to the growing literature of the A-cum-H-bomb jitters. As the book opens, it is early in the 32nd century A.D. Thermonuclear warfare has made the North American continent a human and cultural desert. Misshapen biological monsters and primitive nomadic tribes roam the land, while a few neofeudal barons control certain territories-for instance, "Texarkana." The only oases of learning in this new Dark Age are the monastic orders of the Roman Catholic Church, which has miraculously survived the holocaust of the "Flame Deluge," albeit...
...ahead faster if they built only one example of each expensive piece of apparatus (e.g., cyclotrons) and used it jointly. Last week Emelyanov signed an agreement with AEC Chairman John A. McCone which provided for exchange of scientists and information, and a cooperative effort in research on controlled thermonuclear energy...
...Sunset Strip (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). After an air crash, three men and three women are washed ashore on a desert island. Nothing short of a thermonuclear bomb could upset that sort of paradise-but that is precisely what happens...