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Unlike the atom bomb, atomic artillery is not meant to be used against set targets known in advance. The enemy cannot disperse his cities, but he can disperse his troops. Against a normally dispersed advancing unit, atomic shells would not be especially effective. Atomic shells must be used on heavy concentrations of troops and munitions...
...From the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, Dr. Frederick Traub reported that high-energy radiation from experimental atom smashers can beat the life out of tough bacteria and viruses. Using this technique, doctors may be able to prevent such diseases as hepatitis from being spread by virus in transfusion plasma...
...Binding Force. Dr. Hans A. Bethe, head theoretical physicist in the wartime atom-bomb project, is baffled by the force that makes matter hold together. According to all known laws, the particles (or waves) that form atomic nuclei should repel one another. Instead, they cling tightly to one another with a force that is 1037 (ten trillion trillion trillion) times as strong as the force of gravitation. This force, oddly, has only a short range. At a distance of 2.5 x 10-12 centimeters (one four-thousandth of the radius of an atom), it diminishes almost to nothing...
...Davison packed his bags, investigators began to "P.V." (for "Positively Vet") 14,000 scientists and clerks in Britain's atom project. The British recognize that American misgivings about British security measures are one reason why the U.S. refuses to trade atomic information with its closest ally...
...meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Boulder, Colo., Atom-Smasher Enrico Fermi speculated on the origin of cosmic rays. The high-speed cosmic particles, packed with destructive energy and dangerous for tomorrow's rocketeers, may have wandered into the earth's galaxy from the far reaches of space, said Dr. Fermi. Geologic ages ago, they drifted into the weak, galactic magnetic field. And weak though that field is, it has had millions of years to kick the particles up to a dangerous speed. Space travelers will brave them at their peril...