Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flunked out of his doctoral program at Berkeley only to be salvaged by a sympathetic adviser and then sent to New Mexico to work in a Government program there. He was 24. The year was 1949. Taylor discovered that his new job at Los Alamos was to make atomic bombs. He loved it. Thereafter his bomb-making genius confounded the elders in the temple...
Much later we see Taylor middleaged, a figure of high reputation among his colleagues, now disaffected with bomb making and no longer at work as a nuclear physicist. He directs an ecological-research firm. He and McPhee travel about the country. He shows the author unguarded trucks rumbling down rural highways, loaded with weapons-grade uranium. They see manufacturing plants where enough fissionable material to blow up Manhattan could be stolen by one armed and determined man, or carried off bit by bit, undetected, by one unarmed employee...
Some authorities agree that such conditions are terribly dangerous and that as more nuclear fuel is produced, things will become much worse. Others say that, yes, one man could make a fis sion bomb, but that man would have to be a Ted Taylor. On the other hand, Taylor insists this is not so. Just about all that is required is an ability to read and to use tools...
...book without hoping that the AEC and private manufacturers will indeed tight en what seems to be unbelievably sloppy security. Locations and (in some cases) floor plans of atomic installations can be had from the U.S. Government Printing Office. So, according to Tay lor, can enough declassified hints on bomb making to smooth the way for any halfway-intelligent home hobbyist...
...convicted of perjury for lying about his involvement with Chambers and that this verdict was delivered at the end of a trial which, the judge declared, centered on whether Chambers was telling the truth. Belfrage is too busy rushing on to spout another unsupported statement: "With respect to the Bomb, the Russians were fully capable of making their own..." This scattershot method, of course, was invented by that famous American political leader who once said that if this story didn't work, he had another which would: the junior Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph R. McCarthy...