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After a complicated, technical discussion of "Recent Developments in Nuclear Fusion," an expert on atomic physics devoted several minutes of a question-and-answer period in Harkness Commons last night to clearing up common misconceptions about the Soviet 30-megaton bomb and nuclear bombs in general...
Rose devoted most of the evening to considering possible ways of extracting energy from a fusion process involving deuterium, which has the advantage that it is as easily obtainable as "sagebrush in the West." Deuterium, popularly known as "heavy hydrogen," is hydrogen with an extra neutron and can be removed from sea water...
...negative patients who at some time in the past have had an infusion of Rh-positive blood. It contains an antibody called "anti-D," formed by natural body defenses doing battle with the invading Rh-positive factor. (Parker got his anti-D as a result of a 1947 spinal fusion when he was accidentally transfused with Rh-positive blood.) In the laboratory, technicians use the serum with anti-D to test blood specimens for Rh factor. If clumping occurs, technicians can be sure that the specimen is Rh positive...
...premature explosion on earth, or too early an explosion aloft, could contaminate the atmosphere with radioactive products. All tests in the atmosphere, including last week's Soviet test, will surely raise the level of the earth's radioactivity. The dirtiest tests in the past were fission-fusion-fission bombs, the first of which, exploded by the U.S. in 1954, killed a Japanese fisherman by its fallout and seriously injured many people in the nearby Marshall Islands. When the Russians fol lowed with similar dirty tests, radiation increased all over the world. Especially frightening was the fallout of strontium...
...anti-missile missiles, it could do its job without spraying the ground below with radioactive fallout. But perhaps the most devastating effect of the N-bomb would be to make nuclear explosives available to all nations. Plutonium and uranium 235 for fission bombs are expensive and scarce, but fusion ingredients (lithium, deuterium, etc.) are comparatively cheap and plentiful. If they are the only major ingredients needed, the manufacture of N-bombs and big H-bombs to be triggered by them will be an easy matter, once the secret of their construction becomes common knowledge...