Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1950 — Page 6

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Major Questions Today

State of Superbomb Now About Same =~ As A-Bomb Was a Year Before 1st Blast 2 By WATSON DAVIS, Director, Science Service (Copyright, 1950, by Science Service)

WASHINGTON, July 11—The major question about the hydro-| gen bomb is: Can it be made and will it explode as expected? “You may be confident that the hydrogen bomb is in about the same state uranium bomb was about 1943 or 1944, a year atomic explosion. Scientists think it can Commission is working on it. Una working! — ———— AE get there the sun stoked. The transforma- ; tion in the superbomb is different hydrogen b has notiand direct. It is almost instanor exploded. That is a taneous and it will happen only coming months, — = {when the hydrogen is concentratThe hydrogen or superbomb re-®d and “ignited” by A-bomb heat. action is different from that of! Reaction Choices } he slows oF Ahr Stel made of Bs-f It seems most likely that either! jum... The ‘ener omen reaction of deuterium with tri-| i -. Pmton &Y tium, or tritium with tritium. will] © from the changing of matter into be th 4 t choice. Deuteri-|| energy, as Einstein computed, but 8 reaction ot choice. Deuters- 1

{um combined with tritium gives a the Tightest ee riomown r¢ helium atom and a neutron, while

two tritons coming together proof the superbomb. duge the helium atom (alpha A-Bomb Size Limited

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The heavier hydrogens are exbomb- is limited by the circum- Pensive, although the AEC price stance that if too much of the 'a8s upon them now are not fair fissionable metals—uranium 235 Values of their cost in the super-| or 233 or plutonium—are brought|Pomb production. (For research together they will explode because Purposes it is possible to buy from ina ‘the neutrons from their exploding the AEC five cubic centimeters | & atoms will start and maintain a Of 50% tritium gas at a cost of w chain reaction. This critical mass $1315 which figures out to, some-| is somewhere between 22 and 66 thing like the fantastic figure of pounds, exactly what is a secret./8 quarter of a billion dollars per The A-bomb is set off by bringing Pound.) i together suddenly two pieces of Deuterium can be concentrated less than critical mass which to- out of ordinary water, but tritium gether will be more than the must be made with the use of amount that would start the ex- fissionable material, competing for plosion, Nauiirons with the production of | ¥ {plutonium which is the principal | a of ing seit sta high. | 0b of the big atomic reactor at| temperature “trigger” of a fission | Hanford, Wash. Tritium is made] bomb to get it going. It is safe PY neutron bombardment of the material of the superbomb to-|Plutonium Is e by bombard-| gether—it can weigh a tom or Ment of uranium 238 by neutrons| more. Its size is limited only py from the controlled fissioning of | the amount of hydrogen “fuel” Uranium or plutonium. . { that can be “set fire” in the few! Concentrated Form billionths of a second of the ex- i plosion of the “igniting” A-bomb.| The heavier kinds of hydrogen | The high temperature necessary would be put into the superbomb!

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Exclusive Times-Acm ¢ Radiophoto by Times-Acme Staff Photographer Bd Hoffman. First American soldier to. die of his wounds in the Korean campaign is buried in a newly cre. | | ated U. S. military cemetery behind front lines. His name was not revealed. Pvt. Donald E. Wilson, Pulaski, Wis., holds a croés as Pfc. John Walder, Milwaukee, Wis., drives it into the ground

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Renton spt vit 12,50 25h motes OF Bill for Korea Veterans Shelved

The speed .with which the hy-/lum of the trigger bomb might

perbomb seem very much more's pi to give veterans of the ernment - guaranteed Certainly the ordinary kind or complex than the making of the Korean fighting benefits of the homes and businesses. single-weight ogen will not original uranium bomb must have GI Bill of Rights. | Sem—————— do, for it takes far, far too long. Deen. Of course, we know now

actions, that keep the sun stoked onium) bomb will go off. We are| (D. Miss) sald It Is 00 008 t9/Eqr 70 Air Groups with energy, extend over billions NOt 80 sure that the superbomp start work on such legislation. of years. Billionths of a second WV!!! explode the way that we ex- He emphasized that he is not opare more like what is necessary Pect it. What has been done is so Posed to it. in the fusion superbomb. {much simpler than what has nev-| It i= just as well that there been done. the bill's gponsor, brought it up spa are three kinds of hydrogen. The Fear Spurs Bomb jat a closed committee meeting commonest is the ordinary sort! Except |called to consider another minor the waters of the earth. Its xcept for the fear that others veterans bill. 0! 8 will do it first and use it against heart or nucleus consists of one us, it would be foolish to try to

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“or deuterium, which was dfs- tritfum is a bad business as we He said ngress should start

covered here in America in 1931, [shall lose half of our supply every| YOTKIng out a policy on benefits |, ceded for national security,

drogen atoms can react under be ‘combined with the heavy hy-| WASHINGTON, July 11 (UP) Rights. These . include, besides pro such great flash heat determines drogens to form a solid, [The House Veterans Committee education hat an be used to make the The problems in making the su-/tqqay shelved for the time being payments, job training, and gov-| superbomb., ! "

Bea 2g make the hydrogen bom . hi there 18 heavy a, he making and Ts of & long series of similar contests. sional air policy committees have ] (set T0 groups as the minimum

naturally present as 1/4500th of|12 years. due to its radioactive for veterans of this kind of war. hydrogen in nature. This is hy- disintegration, drogen 2, with a nucleus of one! Some scientists argue proton and one neutron, which as strongly that we should not try to In Korea are too busy fighting to

& particle is called a deuteron, make the superbomb. Certainly jt WOrTy much about benefits such fnathe, Reeve i Of Itchy SmartKind has no industrial or peacetime a8 free schooling which they may | Bopernly ced With Time-tested Resinel

uses that can be foreseen now. Its 8et in the future, Then there is tritium, the third reaction is just too big, sudden; Mr, Teague did not press the kind of hydrogen, “heavy, heavy and powerful. There seems to be issue. Mr. Rankin told a reporter drogen. which has a hucleusi So way you can use the reaction there was no agreement to take one pi n and two neutrons, r plant, 2 {it up at any specific later date. | ition called a triton. A team of British! It if works, it is devastation be- Only veterans of World War II} fal Shufedions that del a Sha: I first made it in 1034 yond man’s most hellish dreams. {get benefits of the GI Bill of Nature heal. Remember the atomie bombardmen EE Sl a a a a _ L.

1 t of deu- Jia terons with deuterons, ‘It is being produced by neutron bombardment of lithium metal in an atomic reactor at Hanford. It is still a very rare element, nonexistent now in nature since it is radioactive and half of it dis. appears every 12 years. Yet this 3 sy prime stuff of the superbomb What happens in the superbomb fs that hydrogen is turned into helium. This is what happens. so far as ah end result is concerned, in the atomic process that keeps

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