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Last week, Poet Sergei Mikhalkov (coauthor of the Soviet national anthem) lyrically followed up Stalin's announcement of an atom bomb explosion by writing a new soldiers' marching song...
...Attlee has never weakened on the defense program, but it is evident that if he returned to power he would have trouble putting it over in the face of Bevan's opposition in his own party. Bevan believes that the Russian threat is exaggerated, and that Americans are "atom happy...
...Snug Atoms. Organic chemistry deals with carbon compounds like those found in living organisms. Most of them have long chains or rings of carbon atoms with one atom or more of hydrogen attached to each carbon atom. Fluorine atoms are heavier than hydrogen, but they are about the same size, and they fit snugly into the molecule without disturbing the existing arrangement of the carbon atoms. The result of replacing the hydrogen atoms in the molecule with fluorine is a compound which resembles the organic original in some respects. But the new fluorochemical has different and sometimes remarkable properties...
...political reporter and acting city editor for the Winnipeg Free Press, MacKay covered the 1946-'47 atom spy trials in Ottawa and states that there was very little sensationalism or hysteria associated with the trials...
...atom age, these rare-earth metals have suddenly come into new importance, have sent companies scrambling for new sources. Cerium, for example, combines with magnesium and aluminum to make tough, light, heat-resistant alloys ideal for jet-engine parts. The Atomic Energy Commission is interested in cerium's cousins because they are useful in shields against atomic radiation, have other secret uses...