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...statement. By phone and by personal contact almost daily with the White House, he had offered the President, who is untrained in the nuances of nuclear arming, the advice derived from a lifetime of distinguished scientific service (see box). Nobel Prizewinner Seaborg had helped usher in the Atomic Age-and he knows the perils of the atom as well as its promise. He has no illusions about the task that the U.S. faces. Says he of the Russians and their test series: "They were preparing a good deal of the time while we were negotiating in good faith with them...
From New York to Los Angeles and from Copenhagen to Delhi, demonstrations were held to protest the Soviet tests. But they seemed, somehow, to have little more fervor than such anti-U.S. demonstrations as those generated by the executions of convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Abductor Caryl Chessman. In this sense, Khrushchev appeared to have won his gamble...
What do the people of that community have to fear from an atom bomb? They seem to have already destroyed themselves by their indifference...
Scientists have discovered a quantity of tritium, a radioactive variation of the hydrogen atom, on the capsule of Discoverer 17. Normally most tritium is lost in the atmosphere...
Located just north of the University Herbarium, the Cambridge Electron accelerator is a joint Harvard-M.I.T. project financed by the Atomic Energy commission. The $11.5 million "atom-smasher," now nearly five years in the asking, will completely dwarf present electron accelerators...