Correspondents Shepley and Blair decided that their account of a complex struggle needed book-length scope. The Shepley-Blair report, The Hydrogen Bomb, is now the center of a roaring controversy.

Meanwhile, physicist Edward Teller and Atomic Energy Commissioner (AEE) Lewis Strauss were among those who began arguing vociferously for a "high-priority" program to build a hydrogen bomb.

This booklet was given to servicemen involved in Operation Grapple, the H Bomb test, carried out on Christmas Island in 1956-7 and it explains the background on the mission, the route of the ...