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...advertisement elsewhere in this issue, entitled "The truth about atomic hazards," sponsored by the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, it is stated that radiation is the least important aftermath of an atom bomb explosion, as regards danger to humans, and that "only 15% of the deaths at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were caused by radiation . . . No significant amount of radiation appeared to linger after the explosions...
More & more physicists are coming to know the Institute as the home of an authentic contemporary hero of their trade: Dr. J. (for nothing) Robert Oppenheimer, who is president of the American Physical Society, chairman of the technical advisers to the Atomic Energy Commission, and one of the world's top theoretical physicists. Laymen know him as the man who bossed the production of the atom bomb. Last week, at 44, Oppenheimer was beginning his second year as director of the Institute for Advanced Study...
...Ultrafax"* and reproduced on a moving photographic film. The transmission took two minutes and 21 seconds. Impresario of the event was David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America. Not a man to be caught in understatement, Sarnoff compared the importance of Ultrafax to that of splitting the atom...
Toyland's atomic age is booming; chemistry sets contain samples of uranium ore, guaranteed to be all but inert, and incapable of making Junior radioactive. An atom gun with a hidden battery flashes and buzzes, and a "rocket" car is driven along on compressed...
Said Engineer Poole: the theory of the atom-driven airplane is "99% perfected." The long-haired scientists have done their work, he explained, and now it is up to the "slide-rule men" to translate theory into a tangible airplane...