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While the AEC stood still, military staffs and armchair strategists toyed (that seemed to be the word) with the possibilities of the atom. One current and quite plausible notion of how to keep the Red Army from seizing Europe: drop intensely poisonous atomic dust to form a barrier between the U.S.S.R. and the land to the west of it. Such a cordon might last for years; it would not, however, prevent the Russians from developing bacteriological weapons, possibly more deadly than the atom (see MEDICINE), which could be sent across the barrier...
...clothing. A young man with a red face, an Army combat jacket and a G.I. wool cap climbed out of an excavation across the street. "What's happening, Mac?" he asked. I told him they were going to unveil a plaque marking the approximate spot where the atom bomb started five years ago this afternoon. "They ain't makin' no bombs there now, are they?" he asked. I told him I didn't think so. He said: "Wadda ya know" and went back down in the excavation...
Hutchins looked around. "Where's Fermi?" he called. Several underlings started yelling for Fermi. He was standing in the dirty snow talking about the atom. I asked him how it was five years ago. He said shyly: "Well, it was awfully cold, and there was a wind blowing." I asked him how he felt when the curve was "exponential." "I didn't think much of anything because I knew it was going to work," he said. And what did he feel this afternoon, five years later? He looked at the slush and shrugged his shoulders: "Well, for better...
Behind it all sits the atom bomb, something everyone knows about and about which nobody says anything. I was riding through the Czech countryside one evening and in the distance I saw a great lighted building. I asked the Czech I was with what it was. "It's a factory," he said. Then I asked him what it produced. "Oh . . . I don't know," he said, and then, "Yes, yes, well they make . . . how do you say . . . guns . . . yes, machine guns. But not only guns. They make machines and other things, too." Here's a guy apologizing because we discoved...
Katharine Cornell is competent and lively as Cleopatra, but hardly right: she seems conscientiously rather than constitutionally wily and sluttish. Marc Antony is played by English Actor Godfrey Tearle (whose close resemblance to F.D.R. won him the role of the U.S. wartime President in MGM's atom-bomb movie, The Beginning or the End). As the ablest Roman of them all brought low by middle-aged lust, Tearle is brilliantly effective...