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...photograph suggested an entirely different explanation: the mushroom cloud seemed simply to have been painted or superimposed onto a picture of routine tank maneuvers. If so, Red Star's caption writer is clearly a man of imagination. His dramatic description of the scene began, "A mighty atom explosion neutralized the resistance of the enemy. Tank units moved swiftly forward at highest speed carrying out the orders of the commanders...
Battle for the Bomb. Strauss was one of few in the Government to argue against using atomic bombs on Japan; he contends that U.S. policymakers knew Japan wanted to surrender long before they dropped the atomic bombs. But Strauss had no doubts about the need for the U.S. to keep ahead in the nuclear arms race. Shortly after his appointment to the AEC in 1946, he recommended building a monitoring system to detect Russian atomic blasts. At the time, most people thought a Russian atom bomb was years away; Strauss had to plead, push, finally offered...
...atom smashers have grown larger and more powerful, the subatomic particles that scientists have been able to find have grown stranger and more elusive. Still, it hardly seemed probable that anyone would ever discover another bit of matter quite so peculiar as the neutrino, first detected near a nuclear reactor in 1956. So light that it weighs nothing at all, the neutrino is free of electric charge and can pass through the heaviest materials as if it were hurtling through empty space. But last week, a team of Columbia University physicists did the improbable: using 5,000 tons of battleship...
Guilty Particles. Hardly had the neutrino become established as a real particle when physicists noticed that pi mesons (middleweight particles, also called pi-ons, that are created by powerful atom smashers) disintegrate into slightly lighter mu mesons (muons) while an unseen particle carries away part of their energy. At first the physicists assumed that ordinary neutrinos were the guilty particles. Then they began to have their doubts. Maybe another kind of neutrino was stealing the pion's energy. But it had been hard enough to trap regular neutrinos; how were scientists to locate and study an even more evasive...
...atom bomb scares me, sometimes Khrushchev frightens me, but the Kennedys absolutely terrify...