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The hell bomb

By William L. Laurence

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GenreLiterary Classics, Other

Length5 hrs 15 mins

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FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateMay 3, 2025

LanguageEnglish

1Introduction

2FOREWORD

3INTRODUCTION

4I THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HYDROGEN BOMB

5II THE REAL SECRET OF THE HYDROGEN BOMB

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6III SHALL WE RENOUNCE THE USE OF THE H-BOMB?

7IV KOREA CLEARED THE AIR

8V A PRIMER OF ATOMIC ENERGY

9THE HYDROGEN BOMB AND INTERNATIONAL CONTROL

10A SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF ATOMIC WEAPONS

11The Truman-Attlee-King declaration

12The Acheson-Lilienthal report

13The Baruch proposals to the United Nations

14The first Soviet proposals—Gromyko’s statement of June 19, 1946

15The Soviet Proposals of June 11, 1947

16The Second and Third Reports of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission—September 11, 1947, and May 17, 1948

17Atomic energy negotiations since 1948

18International Inspection

19International ownership and management

20Strategic balance (quotas)

21Sanctions

221. 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?

232. 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?

243. Is the existing United Nations plan technically adequate to control H-bombs?

254. Is control over fissionable materials sufficient to prevent the production of hydrogen bombs? If so, is the existing UN plan adequate to this task?

265. 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?

276. 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?

287. Should the provisions of the present un plan relating to inspection, surveys, and explorations be modified to control heavy water and deuterium production?

298. What safeguards are necessary to prevent clandestine production of tritium? Would an international agreement flatly prohibiting production in quantity be desirable?

309. Should a world-wide geological survey cover concentrated lithium deposits?

3110. 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?

3211. How does the H-bomb affect the problem of “stages”?

3312. How does the H-bomb bear upon the problem of disposition of existing stocks of fissionable material?

3413. How does the H-bomb bear upon “quotas”?

3514. How does the H-bomb bear upon research to be performed by the United Nations control agency?

3615. Should technical information regarding the H-bomb be transmitted to the United Nations as a basis for a discussion of hydrogen control?

3716. Should a new panel of experts analogous to the Acheson-Lilienthal Board be appointed to study the H-bomb in relation to international control?