Clouds of Deceit (1985)
“‘Scientists who saw yesterday’s palm-shaped explosion off Western Australia speculated whether it was the first hydrogen bomb that was set off.’ In autumn 1952, Britain was actually nearly five years away from being ready to test the hydrogen bomb. Even the US had not managed it so far; they would explode their first successful hydrogen device, which was far from being a usable weapon, on 1 November 1952 at Eniwetok. The notion that Britain might somehow have been able to leapfrog ahead to the ...hydrogen bomb is in the realms of science-fiction; British scientists had only just succeeded in meeting the deadline imposed on them by politicians for testing the atom bomb, and the effort had been a massive drain on the country’s depleted post-war resources.
The Daily Graphic justified its flight of fancy with reference to the opinions of unnamed ‘scientists’. It cited the shape of the cloud and the bomb’s ‘greater and more widespread destructive force on the surface’ as evidence.MoreLess
The Daily Graphic justified its flight of fancy with reference to the opinions of unnamed ‘scientists’. It cited the shape of the cloud and the bomb’s ‘greater and more widespread destructive force on the surface’ as evidence.MoreLess
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