Pleasant Grove Review | 1950-12-01 | Page 3 | Hydrogen Bomb could end all Life on Earth, Report

Hydrogen Bomb Could End . All Life on Earth, Report i CHICAGO Dr. James R. Arnold of the University of Chicago believes be-lieves it might be possible to make a hydrogen bomb that would come close to killing everyone in the world at a minimum cost of between $4 and $40 billion. He declared, however, it would take perhaps five or ten years to make such a bomb. The burden of producing the bomb is so great that there is no "immediate danger" that anyone will make it, he added. But Dr. Arnold doubted that the human race could be eradicated to the last man. He pointed out that the death-dealing effect would come from radioactive radio-active dust spread by a terrific explosion. He held that cobalt was the only practical element to make that dust, and that only the hydrogen hydro-gen bomb would be powerful enough to distribute it. Although the danger that such a bomb will be produced is not real and immediate. Dr. Arnold said that "it is an ominous circumstance that we can come so close to a practicable prac-ticable method for self destruction with present-day technology."