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Professor Leet, one of the nation's leading seismologists, was among the scientists who took part in the Los Alamos atom bomb test two years ago. As a specialist in the study of vibrations, Leet has recorded the effects of earthquakes and blasts on his underground machines. He is the author of a forthcoming book on "Causes of Catastrophes...
...breakfast-food manufacturer advertised an atomic bomb ring: "Actual atoms, splitting like crazy inside this ring! Look into lens-and socko! You'll see brilliant stabs of flashing light caused by released energy of atoms split to smithereens inside atom chamber." Only...
People who think they know the worst about The Bomb have some grisly surprises in store. Even long-range, atom-carrying rockets (still in the designing stage) are already an old-fashioned notion. In this month's Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Dr. Edward Teller, a Chicago University physics professor who played an important part in developing The Bomb, looks alarmingly ahead...
...hellish scheme is penetrated by a humble tide-gauge watcher, who alerts U.S. President Place. Fortunately, Place knows a little more geology than Supreme Commissar Yang. Quickly he sends planes to atom-blast Greenland's icecap. Relieved of its ice burden, Greenland rises. (It probably would, too, in a few million years.) Author Heard's fine, cheerful finish: by migrating to the cool, temperate Greenland plateau, Americans, and other men of good will, survive...
...Beginning or the End (M-G-M), the first full-length movie to grapple with the atom bomb, was given its title, inadvertently, by Harry Truman. When the picture was proposed, the President (as well as MGM's pressagent can remember) remarked: "Make it a good movie. . . . This is either the beginning or the end." The M-G-M boys undoubtedly did their best, under great difficulties; but, also undoubtedly, they didn't make a very good movie...