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...academic subject, pursued almost entirely in university research laboratories. The Bell Telephone Laboratories discovered that an alloy of tin and niobium remains superconducting in strong magnetic fields.'' And it is in just such extremely strong magnetic fields that scientists need to conduct sophisticated experiments in controlled nuclear fusion...
...probably equal or exceed the 1959 peak, but they are not alarmed. The fission energy yield of the Soviet 1958 tests was 10 to 15 megatons. The total energy of last fall's Soviet tests was much greater (170 mega tons), but most of it came from nuclear fusion, which creates little fallout. Only about 25 megatons came from nuclear fission of uranium or plutonium, and since many of the Russian tests were exploded at high altitudes, their dangerous fission products will presumably stay aloft for longer periods of time and lose more of their activity by natural decay...
FOCUS (Stan Getz; Verve). For reasons obscure, jazz musicians these days have a yen to go classical. This latest attempted fusion of longhair and brushcut involves seven pieces for string ensemble by Composer-Arranger Eddie Sauter against which Saxophonist Getz pins his softly twining improvisations. The string pieces are in fact little more than an assortment of film-style clichés, but Getz's solos-soaring, tumbling and melting-are worth the price of the album...
Only a little plutonium-about 10 lbs. -is needed, chiefly as a detonator. Modern nuclear weapons get most of their power from comparatively plentiful fusion materials, such as lithium and deuterium (heavy hydrogen). The nation that makes or acquires a few plutonium detonators can upgrade them without much difficulty into city-busting H-bombs. "The cost of deuterium," says one British scientist, "is about like good champagne...
Although it stands a little beyond the limits of realistic politics in many ways, the peace march can be the first step toward a fusion of the liberal critics of American policy. So long as its leaders realize that marches are not useful forms of political activity, so long as their criticism does not turn to blind apolitical protest, and so long as they recognize that their aims are those of a part of the political arena, the march is a step forward. Those who support a liberalization of American policies need not resign the function of criticism to those...