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Sixteen months ago the President of the U.S. left a Big Three conference in Bermuda and flew to New York, where he made a memorable promise to the United Nations Assembly: "The United States pledges before you-and therefore before the world-its determination to help solve the fearful atomic riddle-to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life." To back up his words, Dwight Eisenhower made a concrete offer of nuclear materials to an international agency designed to develop peaceful uses of the atom...
...through the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, an eight-man panel to study peaceful uses of atomic energy, their impact on the American way of life, the Atomic Energy Commission's peacetime role, and legislation that may be needed to speed the atom's peaceful development...
...Most atom bombs have been exploded well above the ground, either perched on a tower or dropped from an airplane...
...gave no more information, but some of the military problems of an underground atom bomb are fairly obvious. Nuclear explosives are getting cheaper and more plentiful, and they can perform with extra oomph many of the familiar military duties of chemical explosives. Items...
...After Squibb Institute chemists tinkered with the molecule of hydrocortisone by inserting an atom of fluorine, Harvard Medical School's Dr. George W. Thorn and colleagues found that they had a synthetic hormone far more powerful than the natural ones. Still available only in pinhead quantities for research, it controlled a far-advanced case of Addison's disease, even when the dose was cut to one one-hundred-thousandth...