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Enrico Caruso, His Life and Death, Dorothy Caruso; Fighting Liberal, George W. Norris; Tolstoy and His Wife, Tikhon Polner; A. Woollcott, His Life and His World, Samuel Hopkins Adams; The Middle Span: Vol. II, Persons and Places, George Santayana; Mozart-His Charactcr. His Work, Alfred Einstein; Black Boy, Richard Wright; The Young Jefferson, Claude G. Bowers; The Unquiet Grave, Cyril Connolly; Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal, Thomas A. Bailey; The Age of Jackson, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.; Saints and Strangers, George F. Willison; One Who Survived, Alexander Barmine; Lincoln, the President, J. G. Randall...
...present atomic bomb, Professor Wheeler believes, is a mere firecracker. The cornerstone of atomic physics is the Einstein Equation,* which shows that all matter, on earth and elsewhere, is merely frozen energy. "It tells us that the most powerful nuclear transformation so far known, the fission of a heavy nucleus, releases only one-1,000th of the energy locked up in its mass." The sub-atomic particles which form the uranium nucleus are not themselves transformed. They are only reshuffled into smaller nuclei, with a tiny loss of mass. If protons, for instance, which are found in all nuclei, could...
...Albert Einstein had his say about the atomic bomb last week. He was heard with respect: his classic E=mc² formula, announced in 1905, was the foundation of atomic research; a letter from him to President Roosevelt in 1939 helped set the atomic thunders rolling. Last week, in an Atlantic Monthly article ghost-written by Raymond Swing, the sage of modern science spoke...
...they should invite the Soviet Union to prepare and present the first draft of a constitution. ... It would be wise if [it] were to be negotiated by a single American, a single Britisher, and a single Russian. . . . The World Government would have power over all military matters. . . ." Scientist Einstein had no hope of a gradual transition toward world government: "The trouble about taking little steps ... is that while they are being taken we continue to keep the bomb secret with out making our reason convincing to those who do not have the secret...
Other scientists, perhaps a little closer to earth than Dr. Einstein, had pretty well demonstrated that the only "secret"' was the manufacturing process, and that it could not be kept very long. Having worked so hard to destroy the fallacy, they took a poor view of the master's repeated reference to "the secret." On his suggestion that a committee of three settle everything, practical internationalists maintained a polite silence...