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Probably any one of the 15 Men of 1960 would instantly recognize the background of the composite cover. It represents a uranium atom, one of the pertinent symbols of their tradition-shattering technology. It comes from a glowing model made for a LIFE photograph a dozen years ago by Photographer Fritz Goro. The ten tedious days he spent doing it almost qualified Goro for a scientific degree. Clear Christmas-tree lights, dyed and redyed until they reached just the right shade, were used for the protons and neutrons that cluster in the nucleus of the atom...
...single blue bulb, revolved by hand in careful rhythmic paths, was used to suggest the atom's 92 electrons. The position of the camera was shifted constantly; 33 different time exposures were made and four separate lenses were used before Goro finally finished his picture...
...news that buzzed through Washington last week marked another awesome milestone in the onrush of the atomic age. The confirmed facts: in the drab wastes of the Negev desert, tiny, semi-industrialized Israel, with the help of France, is building a 24,000-kw. nuclear reactor with the capacity to produce plutonium, a key ingredient for both a fission and hydrogen bomb. By 1964, estimated some U.S. atom experts, Israel could in theory set off a killingly effective atomic blast...
Without complex airplane or missile-weapons systems no nation can hope to equal the might of the U.S. or the U.S.S.R., even if it cuts quite a figure among its atom-less neighbors. But the world of the abundant atom offers infinite opportunities for small-scale tyranny, blackmail and bluster that may in time involve bigger nations. The changes make more imperative man's need to develop the willingness and devise a way to keep international law and order...
Fortnight ago word leaked out that another nation had joined the U.S., Britain, Russia and France in the world's select little club of atomic powers. But which? Some said Sweden. But last week the London Daily Express reported that the new member of the club is Israel. The story was diplomatically denied by Israel, but the word in Washington is that Israel indeed has begun to produce fissionable material-although it is still a considerable way from producing an atom bomb...