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...money. After looking over the field, Maurice concluded that his money would do the most good at the University of Chicago. The university was already spending upwards of $500,000 a year on cancer research. The scientists of several departments, including nuclear physicists who helped develop the atom bomb, had worked out a cooperative program to find cancer's cause & cure...
Assembling the magnet, core of the atom smasher, will take nearly a month, but the University will not be the scene of nuclear disintegration until late next year, when University experts will finally begin work. Plans for the cyclotron have been afeet for almost two years and construction began 18 months...
...There are only two foolish peoples in the world," observed Atomic Physicist Harold C. Urey, "the U.S. and Russia. . . ." Basis for his observation: they "are making and intend to make atom bombs, and they think themselves powerful." There is no military defense against the bomb, said Urey. He gave the U.S. about a year more of monopoly...
...Zacharias, ret. (famous for his wartime broadcasts to Japan), who likes to make people's flesh creep, last week did it again. He reminded the U.S. that its top military men were anything but complacent over "absolute weapons."* In the United Nations World, Zacharias wrote of new non-atomic weapons "that could wipe out the last vestige of human, animal and vegetable life." And then he added: "They are not an American monopoly. Several nations are known to have them, to be making them, and to be improving them. Furthermore, unlike the atom bomb, they are of such...
...said Zacharias, now has atom bombs 50 times more powerful than those that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But there are other weapons in the new alphabet of destruction: 1) bacteriological bombs containing either botulinus toxin or psittacosis virus; 2) a U.S. -developed biological spray that "can wipe out all forms of life in a large city"; 3) some sort of military application of cosmic rays which is now, he thought, being developed by Russian scientists...