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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uranium Attack. The Department of Terrestrial Magnetism has a powerfully equipped atom-smashing laboratory, headed by Dr. Merle Anthony Tuve. Early this year, when two Germans announced disintegration of the heavy uranium atom with release of 200,000,000 electron-volts of energy (most powerful man-made atomic explosion), Dr. Tuve and co-workers promptly confirmed the discovery, added the find that the uranium fragments become radioactive, continuing to emit particles for a few seconds after the impacts have stopped...