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...well as sheer failure. Not only does the pressure of security promote mediocrity by denying the opportunity for free criticism, basically it stifles the growth of education in these fields because of the scientist's difficulty in separating the classified and non-classified in his mind. For example, Enrico Fermi was forced to discontinue lecturing on atomic theory after the war because he felt that he could not help but divulge classified material...
...damaged his health: suffering from ulcerative colitis, he takes daily doses of atropine and phenobarbital, sticks to a doctor-ordered diet, painful for a man who devours food with Hungarian gusto. But a damaged constitution has not damped his crusader's fervor. The late great Nuclear Physicist Enrico Fermi once said to him, with affectionate exasperation: "In my acquaintance, you are the only monomaniac with several manias." Princeton Physicist John Wheeler, who worked on both the A-bomb and the H-bomb, put it more truly. The essence of Teller's character, Wheeler said recently, is that...
When the Los Alamos bombmakers scattered, Teller accepted an invitation to work with Enrico Fermi at Chicago's Institute for Nuclear Studies. Teller kept urging an H-bomb program, but nobody seemed interested...
...unanimous vote, Iran's Senate last week ratified an oil pact that was a major break in the traditional fifty-fifty profit split that Middle Eastern governments give foreign prospectors. To Italy's state-run ENI and its ambitious boss. Enrico Mattei, Iran granted twelve-year drilling concessions for a strip on the Gulf of Oman, a submerged area off Abadan, and a promising 6,800-sq.-mi. area south of the fabulous Qum find (TIME, May 6). But to Iran ENI gave up to 75% of the profits from any oil find it may make...
...general, the physicists are less alarmed than the biologists are. Says Director Samuel K. Allison of the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi Institute: "Unless the rate of [bomb] testing is greatly stepped up, there is little or no danger to the general public. But if every nation gets into testing, the situation could be extremely serious." He favors an international limit on the power of bombs that may be tested...