Word: fallout
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...wily veterans, Co-Captains Scott Gilly and Fred Schernecker, were quite suspicious. Gilly hit two three-pointers early in the second half, but was silent the rest of the way. Schernecker poured in four three-pointers, including a four-point play, but he sent the crowd to the fallout shelters with his unmistakable misses...
...have inadvertently - assisted the Soviets by pushing for an early test blast. The 1952 explosion peppered the atmosphere with a telltale assortment of radioactive debris, including new atomic elements that could have been created only by a compressed fusion reaction. When Hirsch and Mathews asked Bethe if that fallout could have tipped off the Soviets, Bethe instantly said yes. Says Hirsch: "It was as though he had been waiting 35 years for someone to ask him that question...
...Hirsch and Mathews account has received mixed reviews from the surviving members of the Los Alamos team. Carson Mark, who took over for Bethe in 1947, concedes that the U.S. monitored the Soviets' weapons research by examining the fallout from their blasts, but he doubts that the U.S.S.R. could have worked in the other direction, deducing the secret of Mike's construction by studying its debris. Teller and others believe that the late Andrei Sakharov, who built the Soviet H-bomb, was clever enough to have invented the device from scratch, without the help of Fuchs or anyone else...