The Hell Bomb

About this eBook

Author

Laurence, William L. (William Leonard), 1888-1977

Title

The hell bomb

Original Publication

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.

Credits

Richard Tonsing, Tim Lindell, Wayne State College and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Language

English

LoC Class

UF: Military science: Artillery

Subject

Hydrogen bomb

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 75243

Release Date

January 29, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE HELL BOMB
2. 2.FOREWORD
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION
5. 5.I THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HYDROGEN BOMB
6. 6.II THE REAL SECRET OF THE HYDROGEN BOMB
7. 7.III SHALL WE RENOUNCE THE USE OF THE H-BOMB?
8. 8.IV KOREA CLEARED THE AIR
9. 9.V A PRIMER OF ATOMIC ENERGY
10. 10.APPENDIX — THE HYDROGEN BOMB AND INTERNATIONAL CONTROL — A SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF ATOMIC WEAPONS — B THE INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF ATOMIC WEAPONS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF PROPOSALS AND NEGOTIATIONS — The Truman-Attlee-King declaration — The Acheson-Lilienthal report — The Baruch proposals to the United Nations — The first Soviet proposals—Gromyko’s statement of June 19, 1946 — The Soviet Proposals of June 11, 1947 — The Second and Third Reports of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission—September 11, 1947, and May 17, 1948 — Atomic energy negotiations since 1948 — C THE ATOMIC IMPASSE — International Inspection — International ownership and management — Strategic balance (quotas) — Sanctions — D POSSIBLE QUESTIONS REGARDING H-BOMBS AND INTERNATIONAL CONTROL [1] — 1. Is the hydrogen bomb a more or less important weapon than the atomic bomb? Might hydrogen bombs prove to be decisive in war, or has their significance been exaggerated? — 2. If the H-bomb is deemed to be decisive or far more dangerous than the A-bomb, should international control of hydrogen weapons take priority over control of ordinary atomic weapons? Should the United States propose a separate plan exclusively designed to regulate H-bombs? — 3. Is the existing United Nations plan technically adequate to control H-bombs? — 4. Is control over fissionable materials sufficient to prevent the production of hydrogen bombs? If so, is the existing UN plan adequate to this task? — 5. Must H-bomb controls relate to deuterium and tritium as well as to fissionable material? If they must, can the present UN plan fully provide for these controls or does it require revision or changes in emphasis? — 6. Is it technically possible to detect the manufacture of heavy water and deuterium through international inspection? Would an international agreement flatly prohibiting production in quantity be desirable? — 7. Should the provisions of the present un plan relating to inspection, surveys, and explorations be modified to control heavy water and deuterium production? — 8. What safeguards are necessary to prevent clandestine production of tritium? Would an international agreement flatly prohibiting production in quantity be desirable? — 9. Should a world-wide geological survey cover concentrated lithium deposits? — 10. Do the technical facts of the H-bomb mean that now, more than ever, the United Nations plan is the correct approach to international control? — 11. How does the H-bomb affect the problem of “stages”? — 12. How does the H-bomb bear upon the problem of disposition of existing stocks of fissionable material? — 13. How does the H-bomb bear upon “quotas”? — 14. How does the H-bomb bear upon research to be performed by the United Nations control agency? — 15. Should technical information regarding the H-bomb be transmitted to the United Nations as a basis for a discussion of hydrogen control? — 16. Should a new panel of experts analogous to the Acheson-Lilienthal Board be appointed to study the H-bomb in relation to international control?

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