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...Mark Ampler, a U.S. security agent who enrolls at Bloch's university to keep tab on the physicist promptly falls under his spell. Pearl Harbor packs Mark off to war and sets Sebastian fervently to work on the Bolt, or the Monster, as Author Chevalier interchangeably calls the atom bomb. At war's end, a grieving, disbelieving Ampter discovers that Sebastian has made him the butt of something very like the "Chevalier incident...
Chamberlain and Segre in 1955 created anti-protons in the powerful Bevatron atom smasher at the University of California's radiation laboratory in Livermore, Cal. These particles closely resemble protons, but carry negative charges...
...course might be a slow step-by-step disengagement, with the measures growing as mutual trust grew; no one step could set either power at a catastrophic disadvantage. Inspection of a meaningful kind would of course be necessary, especially at the beginning. A good first step could be an atom-free, demilitarized zone in middle Germany, which could be expanded if it were found workable...
...East German Central Institute for Atomic Physics chose a new deputy director at a salary of $20,160 a year. German-born, British-trained, with unique experience in his field, he was the obvious man for the job: Communist Spy Klaus Emil Fuchs, 47, onetime head of the theoretical physics department at Britain's Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, who slipped atom-bomb secrets to Russian agents, was caught and imprisoned in 1950. Released 2½ months ago, Fuchs flew to East Berlin, was made a citizen of East Germany almost as soon as the wheels hit the runway...
Water for Fuel. The first step toward creating a controlled fusion reaction is to heat up deuterium gas until the nucleus (one proton and one neutron) of each atom is separated from the electron that ordinarily orbits around it (deuterium is the hydrogen isotope in heavy water, D2O). If the particles are made hot enough, the deuterium nuclei will collide with ample force to "fuse" together, forming helium 3 and giving off a neutron. When that happens, part of their mass is converted into energy-the energy of the hydrogen bomb, the stars...