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...convention. "We are fighters, but using no carnal weapons . . . We merely sound the trumpet as the advance guards of the mighty heavenly hosts led by the Great Warrior, Jesus Christ. These legions of warring angels follow us with mighty weapons of warfare that will make the atomic bomb, the hydrogen bomb, and all other inventions of warfare by men look like the popgun of a child in comparison...
Next day, in as unobtrusive a fashion as he could, Harry Truman sent a request to Congress for $260 million more for atomic energy and the hydrogen bomb. The request had been scheduled for ten days earlier, but the outbreak of war in Korea had postponed it: the President had feared that people might think a hydrogen bomb would be used in Korea. His gingerly caution was typical of the Administration's determination, while fighting to win in Korea, to let all provocative acts come from Russia...
What is atomic energy? How is a hydrogen bomb set off? Can the bombs be controlled? A new four-part documentary show called The Quick and the Dead (Thurs. 8 p.m., NBC), with Bob Hope playing the role of inquisitive taxpayer, last week began to answer these questions. "We picked Hope," says 34-year-old Writer-Producer Fred Friendly, "because we figured people would think that if he could understand it, anyone could...
...Republican, had piqued the Senators in a speech last summer when he suggested that political patronage sometimes influenced their dealings with AEC. He had also made a wry comment last May after Ed Johnson's blurting, on a television quiz show, of the first authoritative public reference to hydrogen bomb plans...
...Early this year President Truman authorized the development of the most powerful weapon the world had yet dreamed of, the: 1. Plutonium bomb. 4. Uranium ray. 2. Solium bomb. 5. Hydrogen bomb. 3. Bacteriological bomb...