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...thermonuclear reactions from which the sun and the stars get their energy. When war started, he was soon in the thick of the scientific battle. He served first at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, then went to Los Alamos to head the theoretical physics division of the atom bomb project. Had Hitler's empire lasted a little longer, the bomb that Bethe helped build at Los Alamos might well have blown his homeland apart...
...prime supplier of maps and data that guided Allied bombers and invaders. U.S. agents broke a Japanese naval code in the library, using the only available copy of an old Mexico City directory. The library had much of the data needed for the Manhattan atom-bomb project...
...Short of atom-bombing one's lawn (or one's neighbor's), the only way to fight this infiltration is to get down and pluck. This requires, first, a cold, sharp eye and a strong back. Beyond that, it all depends on the gardener's psychological makeup. One familiar type detests routine plucking, but he keeps alert enough en route to his car in the morning or to the backyard barbecue in the evening, and can spot, swoop and pluck without so much as a change in stride or loss...
...public harassed by headlines, atom-age scientists sometimes seem little more than laboratory soldiers. H-bombs and missiles explode out of their abstruse equations; the products of their most esoteric research are used to refine the practical arts of war. But last week in Washington, D.C. some 2,200 members of the American Physical Society and the National Academy of Sciences met at their spring meetings and read paper after paper to prove that they are still engaged in their principal job, prying into the secrets of the universe...
...supercool atom smasher, operating at temperatures close to absolute zero (-460° F.), may be smaller and cheaper to build, and could operate on far less electrical power than conventional electromagnetic accelerators, said Midwestern Universities Research Association Physicist Dr. Cyril D. Curtis. By using such superconductive materials as niobium-tin alloy (TIME, March 3) instead of huge iron magnets, atom smashers now 1,200 ft. in diameter might be reduced to less than 550 ft., and construction and operation costs could be cut by 35%. Curtis' projection was underscored at the same A.P.S. session when Brookhaven National Laboratory...