Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian Fellowship will give a free showing of "God of the Atom," a religious-scientific film in natural color, at 8 p.m. tonight in Emerson D. The movie was produced by Moody Bible Institute of Chicago...
...secret uranium was once an innocent element, mined chiefly for the cancer-treating radium associated with it. Before the atom bomb, no nation bothered to be secretive about its uranium resources. Even the U.S.S.R. described in detail the deposits found within its boundaries...
...Tyuya Muyun in the Fergana Valley of Central Asia, 200 miles east of Tashkent -where a mine was opened in 1908. By the end of 1913, it had produced 1,044 tons of ore containing vanadium, copper and about .82% of uranium. At 26 pounds of U-235 per atom bomb (a current guess), this early production could have yielded theoretically enough "fissionable material" for four bombs. The Tyuya Muyun mine was still producing in 1936, when it (and some radioactive waters near Ukhta) yielded enough radium for Soviet needs...
Next week, Dr. Lawrence Hafstad, 44, the division's first chief, will begin his enormous task of pacifying the atom. Born in Minneapolis of Norwegian parents, he worked his way through the University of Minnesota as a telephone maintenance man. In April 1939, young Dr. Hafstad got in on the ground floor of nuclear energy by publishing, with associates, the first paper on "delayed neutrons." Delayed neutrons make an atomic pile possible: they allow time for adjusting its speed of reaction...
Hafstad's job in the AEC will require at least as much tact as physics. He will have to get along with atom-minded private companies, such as General Electric and Westinghouse, and with the Navy and Air Force, which are also atom-minded. "The intent," he says, "is to increase the tempo and get more aggressive and effective work going...