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After looking at the 28-minute television film, Operation Ivy, last week, the U.S. public could hardly be blamed for feeling that it had been given too slight a review of the first full-scale thermonuclear explosion and too much of sonorous background music, theatrical hokum and bureaucratic lens-hogging. The film, released 17 months after the event (just in time to heighten world apprehension abroad over last month's two bigger explosions), was subject to massive and at times confusing cutting in the name of security. But even so, it might, as some of its scenes dramatically demonstrated...
...Somehow, it seemed appropriate that Sir Winston Churchill-born in the age of lance-bearing cavalrymen, a captain of two world wars, the statesman who first recognized the A-bomb as the free world's chief deterrent to Communist aggression-should recite the perils and promises of the thermonuclear...
...professional between-the-lines readers of Soviet intentions believed that there were signs of Russia's growing respect for thermonuclear warfare. Three weeks ago, Matenkov acknowledged publicly that a war with modern weapons would be "the destruction of world civilization"-and this was news in Russia's censored press. Last week the army newspaper, Red Star, tried to explain what an H-bomb was like: it was like the explosion of the great Tunguska meteorite which struck Siberia in 1908 with a force of a million tons, "and felled the forest over an area of 100 square kilometers...
...other name, the thermonuclear bomb was mushrooming into world consciousness as the most total single factor of power in history. The Administration decided to make certain that the U.S. knew as much about the problem as security would allow, determined to release to television and press next week an edited film of Operation Ivy, the first thermonuclear test at Eniwetok, in November 1952-complete with a montage of estimated effects of a similar bomb on Washington and Manhattan. And this week Chairman Lewis Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission returned to Washington from the atomic testing grounds to announce that...
Last week the Congress also: ¶ Decided, among House Republicans, to call pending wiretapping legislation the "Anti-Traitor bill." ¶ Voted, in the House Appropriations Committee, to spend a record $1,060,968,000 for atomic and thermonuclear weapons development in fiscal 1955, but cut some $152 million from other budget requests made by the Atomic Energy Commission...