Category: History - Modern (1750+)
_Copyright 1950 by The Curtis Publishing Co. Copyright 1950 by William L. Laurence. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be pri...
_Copyright 1950 by The Curtis Publishing Co. Copyright 1950 by William L. Laurence. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in...
2. Part 2Here must be mentioned another form of hydrogen, named tritium. It has long ago disappeared from nature but it is now being re-created in ponderable amounts in our atomic furnac...
3. Part 3The phrase that goes to the very heart of the problem is “very little kindling,” which is another way of illustrating the difficulty of lighting a fire in a high wind when you h...
4. Part 4We know at this stage that the H-bomb requires three essential ingredients. It needs, first of all, an A-bomb to set if off. We have a sizable stockpile of them. It needs large...
5. Part 5It can thus be easily seen that this “after you, my dear Alphonse” gesture on our part in a matter that may involve our very existence would be more than quixotic. It is likely...
6. Part 6“Real peace,” former Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle, Jr., said in the _New Leader_, “is deeper than absence of war. That will be won in the realm of philosophy and...
7. Part 7In addition to unmasking completely the Kremlin’s ultimate intentions to enslave mankind, and alerting the free nations of the world to the danger facing them as they had not be...
8. Part 8The radiations of the sun, of the giant stars millions of times larger than the sun, come from an entirely different source, the greatest source of energy in the universe, known...
9. Part 9We thus burn food for our internal energy as we burn cellulose for our external energy. The interesting thing here is that, in both types of burning, fission as well as fusion p...
10. Part 10November 4, 1948: By vote of 40 to 6, UN General Assembly endorses majority control plan. Calls upon UNAEC to continue work and requests that sponsoring powers consult to explor...
11. Part 111. IS THE HYDROGEN BOMB A MORE OR LESS IMPORTANT WEAPON THAN THE ATOMIC BOMB? MIGHT HYDROGEN BOMBS PROVE TO BE DECISIVE IN WAR, OR HAS THEIR SIGNIFICANCE BEEN EXAGGERATED?
12. Part 12Pegmatite minerals constitute a principal source of lithium ores, which are currently produced as a byproduct of the nonmetallic mineral industry. Commercial deposits of lithium...