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However, Julian S. Schwinger, professor of Physics, feels that "it is improbable to get the high temperatures necessary for fusion other than by plutonium or uranium explosions...
...Washington today, there will be two items of "purely domestic" Argentine business that will not find their way on to the agenda. One is the suppression of the newspaper La Prensa by Peron's government, which became official last week; the other is the Argentine discovery of nuclear fusion, the process behind the hydrogen bomb...
...Peron is already playing from strength, why did he find it necessary to discover nuclear fusion at this time? It could be simply an attempt to demonstrate his slogan-Peron Gets Things Done. It could be a move to increase his international prestige, or to draw some attention away from the La Prensa incident. But in any event, assuming that Peron's scientists have not really discovered what makes the sun burn, the atom announcement brings the Argentine satrap a little bit closer to the scientific imperialism of the Nazis and Communists...
...versatility, Smuts had lived his own "idea of the whole" which he expounded in his book, Holism and Evolution in 1926. He believed that everywhere in the universe-among electrons and protons, plants and animals, minds and personalities, empires and world orders-the forces of cooperation and fusion, i.e., "holism,"*are at work. But at Smuts's life's end, not even his own beloved country was whole...
...fission type used to date, as distinct from the fusion or hydrogen bomb, which has not yet been made...