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...Through the eight weeks they read transcripts, studied FBI reports, questioned witnesses, listened to examinations and cross-examinations by counsel. Then, one day last month, they were ready to answer the question: Is J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who directed the creation of the world's first atom bomb a decade ago, now to be denied access to classified information because he is a risk to the security...
...Last Full Measure. So ended the Battle of Dienbienphu, March 13-May 8, 1954. It was the one set-piece battle of the seven-year Indo-China war-a strange affray of bayonets in the age of atom and jet. Now there was only the stillness in the wasteland. The casualty returns...
...apparatus at Hanford was designed to detect the neutrino, a ghostly particle that the physicists invented to make their nuclear equations come out even. When an atom disintegrates, the mass of its fragments plus the mass equivalent of the energy released should equal the mass of the original atom. Often they do not; a small amount of mass disappears as completely as a snowflake in the ocean. This is serious because the physical sciences are based on the principle that mass can turn into energy and vice versa, but neither can just disappear...
...orbit 1,000 miles above the earth. Such a satellite would circle the globe every two hours, peeking behind all frontiers. If the nation that operated the satellite felt a need for military action, Von Braun's followers say, it could pulverize any other nation with atom-armed guided missiles shot down from space...
...live with the atom and like it, starring Fredric March...