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...horrors of atomic and bacteriological warfare have largely faded from the public mind in recent months. People were completely fed up with atomic terrors in the months that followed Hiroshima. The affairs of the world move too swiftly for even such a sensation as the atom bomb to be more than a super seven days' wonder. But the members of the Universal Military Training Commission made it their business to learn everything they could about the possibilities of atomic war. Their statement, together with those secured from General Eisenhower and other army officers, put a new meaning into old hackneyed...
...deliver a cheap-seats catcall at international politicos; the next he may tool up an ancient vaudeville wheeze into a brisk short short. A sample of his grandest manner: "Even if we told them how, I don't think the Russians could make the atom bomb. . . . I gather it takes more than a cyclotron, some chemists, and a boy to run out for coffee. I don't think the Soviets have what it takes. . . . How come they haven't been able to turn out a first-rate automobile? There are no top secrets in a Chevvy...
...first atomic bomb released almost as many atom books as neutrons. Few were any good. But a recent book, Explaining the Atom, by Professor Selig Hecht of Columbia University (Viking Press, $2.75) actually comes close to its claim of making "the atom and its energy comprehensible to the intelligent layman...
...Hecht tells how the scientists discovered that atoms are made up of smaller particles, including the notorious neutron, which can slip into an atom's nucleus. Once Dr. Hecht has the reader aware of neutrons, he finds it easy to explain how some atoms can be disrupted by neutron infiltration, loosing a gush of energy...
...with the war over they have a chance to leave the confusion of Europe and gain the quiet security of the high wire and trapeze. Another influence of the modern scene is a display involving a Junior Jeep, not to mention the tragicomic clown skit with a bright black Atom Smasher. One clown climbs in the machine and...the rest can be imagined...