Show I t I II II t I Hydrogen Bomb Explosive Found In Ordinary Water PHILADELPHIA The The research institute of Temple university has I announced the discovery in ordinary water of tritium the form of heavy hydrogen that is the key explosive for hydrogen bombs I The tritium now planned for American H-bombs H is to be made I II in atomic reactors yet to be built A little already has been made in I Existing rg lm American rian reactors reactors I i 7 ire re e tae ufe i i. i ms ot 01 u hydo- hydo hya gen is a colorless gas The reactor tritium is said to cost nearly half a billion dollars a pound Despite that the water discovery shows no present promise of sub sub- The water w ter extraction ap ap- appears apr appears pears to be both less productive and far more costly With the new tritium-detection tritium method it may not be necessary to wait until an H-bomb H is exploded to gather the evidence For at pre pre- present present present sent manufacture of tritium is a presumption that it is intended for H If in manufacturing a is is pilled into water il it will spread s r rEven ad widely wi I Even when diluted to a few atoms per drop this tritium can be detect detect- detected ed by the new methods announced recently For example it was re re- reported reported re- re reported ported that a gram of tritium spilled into the worlds world's greatest river the Amazon could be detected all the way downstream and far out mt into I Ithe the ocean A gram is a twenty sev I of an ounce i I Tritium had been suspected in water for more than 20 years and partly identified by the j I scope The recent discovery used i ii i radio jJ j J i I iI j |