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Under the Wire. The question of further thermonuclear development is new only in the sense that this is the first time it has been bandied about as a political issue in a national campaign. After World...
...down-facing the experts when he questions the "sense" of further hydrogen development. Even now, the U.S. and Russia are engaged in a desperate race for an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a hydrogen payload. For the U.S. to test the missile package without continuing work on its thermonuclear warhead would give the Soviets a disastrous advantage...
...this country into hoping for too much. Even if we could detect hydrogen explosions within Soviet Russia, it is obvious that the preparation for such an explosion could be done in secret, and by the time the test was made we would be sadly trailing the U.S.S.R. in thermonuclear development. Further-more, both of these issues have a very unhealthy effect upon our allies, who are striving to build up their defenses with our help. A. Thomas Stelle...
...brought further news of the kidnaped scientist. A party of Western scientists, recently returned from a scientific conference in Moscow, reported that Kapitsa, far from helping the Soviet H-bomb project, had run afoul of Dictator Stalin for refusing on moral grounds to devote himself to the development of thermonuclear weapons. For the last seven years of the Stalin regime, he had, in fact, been kept under house arrest. One of the first acts of the post-Stalin government had been to release the hostage scientist, give him a couple of chauffeur-driven cars and restore him to his former...
When the Atomic Energy Commission allowed observers, including newsmen, to watch a thermonuclear test at Bikini atoll in late May, it told them practically nothing and got them out of the test area as quickly as possible. The rest of the tests were supposed to be secret...