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...Crusade's 1951 chairman, Harold Stassen, and Fellow Crusaders C. D. Jackson and Drew Pearson, looking like three Statues of Liberty, held high above their heads big rubber balloons. At signal they solemnly let go. The balloons rose into a cloud-flecked, moonlit sky. Then for several hours hydrogen hissed from tanks as some 2,000 other balloons were filled and released in the glare of lamps from a truck convoy...
...Message. The wind carried the balloons at 30 m.p.h. high over a line of low, dark hills on the horizon, where lay the Czech border. At 30,000 feet, the rubber balloons exploded, releasing thousands of leaflets. Another type of balloon, pillow-shaped, of glistening, translucent polyethylene, slowly oozed hydrogen through the plastic pores and sank to earth; it would give a ghostly effect as it bounced along the ground over hedges or lodged against walls and trees. On it, in five-inch letters, was printed the single word svoboda (Czech for "freedom"). Inside were more leaflets...
...Gotten to the stage where it can talk confidently of mass-producing vastly improved atomic bombs, building a hydrogen bomb, tactical atomic warheads for artillery and guided missiles, and atomic engines that would "reduce almost to the vanishing point the dependence of naval vessels and military aircraft on bases of fuel supply...
...quite sure how the destruction of rhodopsin by light produces nerve impulses that the brain interprets as vision. But since the impulses are electrical, he suspects that they may be started by some electrical consequence of the destruction of the rhodopsin. One possibility: that sulfhydryl (sulphur and hydrogen) groups, are exposed when the rhodopsin molecules disintegrate. These are lively chemicals with the necessary punch to start an electrical commotion...
Last week's announcement did not mean that the U.S. already has an H-bomb. It more likely meant that an atom bomb has been found feasible as a trigger for the H-bomb, and that possibly some heavier hydrogen atoms had actually been fused in the experiments. If so, that was a big jump ahead in the grim, global atomic race...