Talk and worry over the H-bomb's radioactive "fall-out" is spreading.
A hot issue in New Zealand's current election campaign is the rumor (since denied) that the U.S. is planning to use Antarctica, 1,800 miles south of New Zealand, as an H-bomb testing ground. New Zealanders feel that 1,800 miles is not enough to shield them from the radioactive aftermath of hydrogen explosions.
In Parliament last week, Sir Winston Churchill said it was his understanding that an "undue number" of bomb tests might afflict the earth's atmosphere for 5,000 years. The Japanese, who get...
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