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...last week, added: "It has cost me so many tears, you have no idea. I should wear my birth certificate on a chain around my neck!" She is bubbling with health, and looks somewhat like a motherly Hausfrau, which she isn't. ("There's not an atom of Hausfrau in me., It's really dreadful...
Around the world, scientists wondered what had happened to Dr. Otto Hahn, 66-year-old head of the chemistry department of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and the man who first smashed the uranium atom. At least one U.S. university (Chicago) wanted to offer the German scientist a position...
...true, it was the biggest news in the world. Anthropologist Raphael E. G. Armattoe, interviewed in Londonderry last week, said that Russia had developed, tested and could mass produce an atom bomb that "rendered the Anglo-American one almost obsolete." It was no bigger than a tennis ball, had a horizontal pulverization range of 53 miles and a vertical lift of more than 6.2 miles, generated a temperature "in the neighborhood of several million degrees centigrade...
Compared to the atom bomb, the CWS project was a shoestring venture-well under $100,000 for bacterial-warfare research; $2 billion for the bomb. Bacterial warfare could be even more hideous than sudden atomic death. The mere existence of CWS showed how little man trusted man; how far man feared man's inhumanity would...
...shaped the wartime economy. They had shaped it to turn out 297,000 combat planes, 86,000 tanks, 41,000,000,000 rounds of ammunition. They had also translated a theory of abstract physics into a practical weapon so efficient that it outmoded all other tools of war: the atom bomb. They had also planned for peace...