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...Party in most of the eastern states." Eastern Republicans, he snorted, are "fertile in expedients which was shown by the nomination of Wendell Willkie and Dewey, nominations made to prevent the election of a Republican President. . . . They think they can . . . nominate another renegade Westerner by scaring us with the atom bomb...
Hardly were the negatives dry when the motion pictures of Test Baker at Bikini were rushed to Paris' Paramount Theater. But peace conferees were too busy to bother with the atom bomb. Some 150 delegates saw the film-but they were minor functionaries and military attach...
Stealthy Neutrons. Most dangerous of all are the neutrons, which can wander almost at will through most kinds of matter. When they hit an atom's nucleus, they produce a dangerous gamma ray and lose a little of their speed. Eventually they are "captured," but the nucleus which captures them is apt to be unstable. Sooner or later it may disintegrate with another burst of rays, alpha, beta or gamma. Some elements, riddled with neutrons, quiet down in minutes or hours. Others radiate thousands of years...
...Atom Engines. At war's end rockets powered with chemical fuels (alcohol and liquid oxygen) were already formidable weapons, and their limit of range and accuracy had not been approached by their German masters. But the age of rockets would not really dawn until atomic energy had been harnessed to propel them. With this in mind, the Army Air Forces recently signed a contract with the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. to develop atomic aircraft motors...
...almost invisible speck of radioactive carbon-a millicurie*- became the first byproduct of atom-bomb-making to be released for medical research. Last week's buyer (at $367 plus handling charges and deposit on the bottle): the Barnard Skin and Cancer Hospital of St. Louis, which will use it only in research. It will not cure cancer...