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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No Promises. Moon began to get cold feet about his nice Canadian job. He hur ried to Washington for a ruling from the Atomic Energy Commission. He got sym pathy and consideration, but in six months of asking, he got no specific ruling. Last week he decided to tell his...
In Washington, the commission ex plained that it could not forbid Dr. Moon to teach in Canada; but neither could it promise forgiveness for everything he might do or say in future. If he divulged official secrets during lectures in Canada, he would certainly be in bad. Furthermore, he had...
Dr. Moon and his fellow physicists are still hoping that the AEC (or Congress) will eventually tell them where they stand. Until they get the word they can stand safely only in classes in U.S. schools, before classes of U.S. citizens, teach only what the Atomic Energy Commission marks unclassified...
...most. Everyone present knew some of the things that atomic science offers to humanity: new medical advances, a deeper understanding of biology, perhaps unlimited energy to do the world's heavy work. But it may be a very long time before science can get busy on such matters. Commissioner Sumner T. Pike of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission did not sound very encouraging about it. Peaceful applications of nuclear science, he said, have "an A-2 priority." They will continue to have a secondary rating until there is international agreement on control of atomic activities. For the present...
The Residue. History, sloppy as usual, had decreed a fade-out rather than a blackout of the British Raj. No longer Viceroy, Mountbatten would become Governor General of Hindu India and chairman of the commission to split the nation's assets between Moslem Pakistan and Hindu India. Sir Patrick...