In the fall of 1952, as the Soviet Union reinforced its Iron Curtain around Eastern Europe and prepared to test its first hydrogen bomb, thousands of American troops fought communist Chinese troops in Korea. The Cold War had heated up, and in Washington, government planners began thinking the unthinkable: How to keep the machinery of the federal government moving if its wheels were blown off in a nuclear attack on the nation's capital?
DAVID ROBERT SMITH, 1925-2006 David Robert Smith, a retired Los Alamos physicist who participated in the first hydrogen-bomb tests, died Sunday after a long illness at
I read with interest Ralph Reiland's opinion piece "Hydrogen: The clear alternative" (Oct. 9 and PghTrib.com). Liquid hydrogen sounds like a wonderful replacement for automobile fossil fuels but where will it come from?
Fred Friendly's NBC radio series in 1950, "The Quick and the Dead," represented a key moment in the evolution of broadcast news documentaries as it examined the creation of the atomic bomb, the looming prospect of the hydrogen bomb, and the potential benefits of atomic energy. It aired at a charged historical moment just after the outbreak of the Korean War and not long after the announcement that America would begin work on an H-bomb in response to the Soviets' acquisition of atomic weaponry. The program also bridged the news and entertainment worlds by featuring Bob Hope and New York Times science reporter William Laurence along with many key figures in the bomb's development. It exemplified journalism's ambivalence toward the new atomic age while pointing the way toward Friendly's le...
On Nov. 1, 1952, Jim Wallace of Pembroke, a United States Army grunt not yet 20 years old, stood on the deck of the transpsort ship General E.T. Collins in the waters of the Marshall Islands and watched in awe with his shipmates as the world's first hydrogen bomb was detonated. In that life-altering instant, Wallace, now 75, was unwittingly inducted into an exclusive military fraternity whose members, having been exposed to radiation, would come to be known as "atomic veterans," a polite term for human guinea pigs in a dawning nuclear age. As Wallace would learn, it was a club in which no one would ever knowingly seek membership. And the lifetime dues would be steep.
Accepting the Wilfred Owen Prize for antiwar poetry, the Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter inveighed against "the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and belligerence." New Yorker film critic David Denby, enervated by the idiot violence of a pair of Abudget B-films, Shooter and 300, called them "the products of a culture slowly and painfully going mad." According to New York Times critic Stephen Holden, "the rotting United States" portrayed in Eric Bogosian's 1987 play Talk Radio "looks almost wholesome 20 years later. Long ago I survived a "debate" with an NRA representative; nothing in the gun worshiper's fantastic arsenal of logic-torturing devices should still surprise me. And yet... if a firearm is merely a tool for moving metal from one place to another (a ...
...A hydrogen bomb is merely a tool for incinerating large areas...
Much has been written about what the next president's priorities should be. Iraq? Health care? The environment? The economy? Seldom mentioned is a danger many Americans have chosen to forget - the atom bomb. The damage done to one of the world's great cities by just one atom bomb, not to mention the thousand times more powerful hydrogen bomb, would eclipse any other imminent danger faced by humanity. The United States and Russia have reduced their nuclear arsenals significantly since the end of the Cold War, but each has thousands of nuclear weapons in its inventory even though the strategy of mutual assured destruction (MAD) has become obsolete. The real danger lies elsewhere.
This war ain't over, it ain't never gon be over. This country is being run by a fool who has hired a whole nother bunch of fools and if peace does come it will be the biggest accident you have ever seen. I'm moving to wherever I can go. I'm sick and tired of all the politicians telling me what we can't do. There are solutions for these problems and for other countries but I dare not suggest a solution for fear I would be labeled a subversive, a radical or a traitor. I am none of those. I just wish that it would all be over so everybody can go home and go to sleep. The closer we come to realization that this war will not end and that it will probably consume us the closer ordinary Americans come to the point of telling the truth about how afraid they are and how little belief they have...
... and fear that dropping the atomic or hydrogen bomb is no longer an option but a necessity. That ...
MOSCOW - , a Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, died Sunday. He was 93. The Russian Academy of Sciences said Ginzburg died of cardiac arrest in Moscow.
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