Word: conant
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Doubles--Ames and Hughes (H) defeated Conant and Watson (BU), 6-4, 7-5; Robb and Key (H) defeated Caldwell and Barry (BU), 6-1, 6-4; Reese and Bramhall (H) defeated Dutka and Frank...
President Conant's important part in the development of the atomic bomb is detailed in an article in the current Saturday Evening Post. Written by Kermit Roosevelt '37, and entitled "Harvard's Prize Kibitzer," it describes how the President was responsible for the decision to continue the Manhattan Project as militarily feasible...
...first of two installments, the Post story tells of Conant's appointment to the wartime National Defense Research Council, and his subsequent chairmanship of a sub-committee on Atomic Energy. "In this capacity he made the crucial decision on the bomb," Roosevelt writes...
According the article, Conant determined the future development of the bomb on the night of December 6, 1941, a few hours before the Pearl Harbor attack. "The best men...minds...scarce materials could be spared only for something of supreme importance...the importance of the decision was obvious. It fell to Conant to make...
...said 'yes', and the Atomic Age was born at that moment." Roosevelt goes on to tell of Conant's jobs on the Top Policy Group in charge of atomic energy, his administrative work on the Manhattan project, and his emotional reaction to the New Mexico test of the bomb, which he watched huddled face down in a trench with his associates, "violently intense...