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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1950.

Campaigners ahoy!

London Express Service

THE ANSWERS TO 11 VITAL QUESTIONS ON

WHAT is the hydrogen bomb,

and how will it work?

HE atom bomb uses the energy

released when uranium

atoms,

which are top-henvy, are broken down.

In the hydrogen bomb

the opposite takes place.

7 IS there any danger of the

hydrogen bomb starting atomic reaction in which the whole world would explode?

The

big

big,

By joining up hydrogen or other

light atoms into heavier ones energy is gained due to their attrac tion-just as we got heat from burn- ing fuel, which means combining coal and oxygen into carbon dioxide.

2 IS this atom-building a

process?

new

It

NO. It is older than the earth. has been going on for millions of years inside the sun. This is the source from which the sun derives its power and indirectly all life is based on it.

We know now that the heat of the sun comes from the combination, near its centre, of hydrogen atoms into the four-times heavier atoms of helium.

To repoduce this process artifici- ally one would first have to overcome the strong repulsion that tries to pre- vent the close approach of any two atoms.

This can only be achieved by the use of intense heat-just as coal will not combine with air until we make it hot enough.

The temperature needed to make atoms behave as they do in the sun must be about as high as the tem- perature in the centre of the sun, which is 20 million degrees centi- grade.

In fact, the matter in the sun is really only "smouldering" since it takes millions of years to be "burned" completely. So to obtain results more quickly one would need still higher temperatures,

3 WHAT would be the advantages of the hydrogen bomb over the atom bomb?

If you feel

you want

more

sleep

'YOU REALLY" ·

·DO NEED IT!

IF you always need an alarm clock to wake you in the

I morning you are not getting enough sleep to keep

you really healthy.

Normai people getting all the sleep they need wake naturally. London nerve-specialist Dr Denis Williams

nys so in a medical report just published.

The old English proverb that "six hours' sleep. is enough for any man, seven for a woman, and eight for fool" is medically unsound.. Many people need ten hours' sleep to feel fully refreshed.

"The amount of sleep needed for an individual's well-being is determined by what he feels he needs, not by what other people, including the doctor, think

is reasonable." Dr Williams, writes in the Practitioner.

But people who habitually luve only five hours' sleert- whlch, according to Williams. includes most folk who claim they "don't sleep a wink"-- rarely show signs of physical exhaustion.

The bad effects of insomnia anare almost entirely due to worry brought about by the belief that prolonged lack of sleep is bound to be injurious.

As the chort shows, a night's

THERE is not the sighest dan sleep for most people is nede Eer of this happening, The up of two bouts of deep slumber materials of which the earth is with an in-between period of composed are not easily cap-estlessness.

able of such a reaction.

8 MAY mankind expect any con

Three Types

THE DEPTH GF SLEEP

DEEP

3am ・BAM 7:0cm

You dart at the peaks-slumber well at the troughs

TYPE 3: The restless, vivid

who wake up dieamers

eatedly throughout the night. Their sleep-curve looks like the ecipe of a saw..

The only cure for Insomnia is to root out the basle causo, says. Williams, Commonest source of

anxiety,

BAD BEA IS seems most unlikely. One can never uleulty in getting off to sleep us of. sleep drugs provided

·by.

Professor

R. E. PEIERLS' President of the British Atomic 'Scientists' Association

There is no such limitation in principle for hydrogen bombs. For the explosive contents would not start exploding until part of it had been heated to the ignition temperature.

This is the reason why one can think of making in this way a very much more powerful blast than with the atom bomb. though, of course, there will be practical limitations.

4 HOW much more powerful is the hydrogen bomb than the atom homb7

A POWER 1,000 mes greater than that of the Hiroshima atom bomb has been quoled in the newspapers. I do not know If thin figure is correct but it certainly would not surprise me if it were.

If there were a 1,000 times more powerful blast it would devastate a fur greater area.

The arca of destruction would nat. of course, be 1,000 times greater, but one might expect it to be 100 times-probably larger than the area occupied by Greater London.

5 WHAT are the destructive effects

of the hydrogen bomb?

IT is known that ordinary atom bombs cause destruction by blast, flash-burn, and radiation. The blast from the hydrogen bomb will be of the same kind, only much more intente,

Flash-burn is also certain to be very much more intense. I cannot estimate the radiation effects without knowing more about the design of the hydrogen bomb.

ATOM bombs are limited in size, or rather in the amount of atomic ex- plosive which they can contain. The reason is that it is impossible for more than a certain amount of atomic explosive to be kept together without THE answer Is, clearly. No! blowing up prematurely.

6 DOES the H-Bomb render the

atom bomb obsolete?

This critical size has been stated

to be less than 200lb.

Even if afom bomb are not required to prime

they hydrogen bombs

may still be important weapons, Just as the tank has not made the Infantryman obsolete.

T

be sure what new discoveries or inventions will be made as a by-product. But in the case of the hydrogen bomb cannot at present picture any way in which its principle could be harnessed to a con- structive purpose.

The slumber rhythm of people "steepleteness la mental tension

by About structive benefits from the work with Insomnia dependa on brought

averwork, or over- which of the three types of worry, on the hydrogen bomb?

exeltement. steeplessness they suffer from.

TYPE 1: Those who have Dr Williams recommends the miss the first trough of deep these are taken under medical' slumber altogether, but make supervision. up for it by going further into He writes: "There is no need

during! the for a patient to suffer from per unconsciousness

zistent and serious lack of sleep. second one.

TYPE 2: Those who are wide for the lack of one of the harm- too carly come back less sedatives which are avail- fully into consciousness after able today." 9 CANNOT the principle of rethe first deep sleep.

-(London Express Service) leasing energy from hydrogen atoms be used to produce power for industry?

del

Í SUPPOSE this is feasible, but one must! remember the very high temperatures

Awake

C. V. R. Thompson

involved. It is one thing to maintain there A MAN IN

high temperatures for an instant in the course of an explosion. It is quite another thing to maintain them steadily for the working of a plant.

10 HOW widely is the principle of the hydrogen bomb known to

scientists?

4

WAR ON

NEW YORK.

PE man walking down Fifth Avenuc just ahead of me pulled a stick

BLUE OPENS LITTERBUGS

yet appeared in the eight win- dows of one of the best stores. Every window contained a large crate Inbelled "Made in Britain," and from the Ild emerged dum- THE principle of the reactions between of chewing-gum out of his mles, male and female, wearing the nuclei of light atoms is known to all pocket. He put the gum in spring styles from London. competent physicists and has been his mouth and threw the

CONGRESS took time off the to the pave-

other day from

all the frequently discussed. But, of course, the wrapper on horub's details of design, of quantities, ofment.

weighty problems of finance phi particular raw materials chosen and of the Another man in a blue foreign relations which confront it, to discuss a Bill to profect expected efficiency, are known only to the

The individuals working on the project and uniform something like the the little man's privacy,

Now York policeman's proposal-10 ban broadensis of walked up. He tapped the inusle interpersed with adver- gum-chewer on the shoulder. tisements from trans and buses. "Name, please,” he asked, and JET FIGHTERS are now on a he wrote on what looked like a luggage label.

remain military secrets.

11 IS it possible to improve on the hydrogen bomb, as the hydrogen bomb improved on the atom bomb?

-24-hour alert 41 the alom- bomb assembly plant at Sandia, The U.S. Amy New Mexico. bas let a contract for barracks to house soldiers awning ack- you ek batteries around the atomic works at Hanford, Washington State.

"What's this?" asked the gum- "A cummons," cald the man In uniformi

"It means must appear at the police court on Thursday.

ONE should never predict the future of chewer. reientifle discoveries, but it looks as if these two principles are using the only two ways of turning matter to its more stable form-namely the breakthug up of atoms which are too heavy, and the huig up of. those which are too light.

Scientists have speculated for some time about the possibility of destroying matter entirely and turning it all into: energy.

This would be energy enormously more powerful than that produced either by the atom-bulkding or atom-splitting processes.

But modern knowledge of the struc- ture of the item has almost completely convinced us that such complete destruc- tion is an impossibility.

"You could get sent to ganl for a year. But as a first often- NOTE to Socialist and Tory managers: Rc- der you will probably got a N campalga caution and a small fine."

publican Fried chicken meals are competing with Democratie give-away prizes to get crowds to political rallies, But one Ke- publican State, New Jersey threatens to pass a law against the Democratic givo-aways. because spectators draw lols for prizes, and New Jersey believes that is a lottery.

"But what have I done?" asked the startled first offender, "You're a litterbug," he was told. "You dropped your rum wrapper on the sidewalk.”

"Yes, but everyone does that." was the reply.

"That's the trouble," replied the man in uniform, and that's why we are doing this"

This serne decurred 172 times DAN-BERGMAN" moves nic in New York that day. And it

with happen every day from now on. That is because it is a crime henceforth to put rubbish anywhere but in a waste-paper

• These answers were given in an basket. Interviews.

-(London Express Service)

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