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...powerful field of force that holds the nucleus together. Study of mesons may tell what this force is. The next step (in the usual sequence of things) may be control of the force. This may lead in the direction of a vastly better source of atomic energy than the fission of uranium...
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...general was probably not telling the whole story. Early, inefficient bombs released only about 1% of the "fission energy" of their uranium or plutonium. Bull's better bomb may have raised the figure to 2%. But without any new principle, a bomb can be 50 times as powerful as the model the general hinted at. One such bomb, skillfully placed, could do a Hiroshima job on all of Greater New York...
Coordinated activity by the United States Atomic Energy Commission and the new National Student Association to increase understanding of the implications of nuclear fission among American college students will begin within the next four months, according to a statement yesterday by Robert Smith 1G, NSA vice-president in charge of student international affairs...
...Fission & Fusion. Stockholders of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. approved a plan to separate the company from its non-aviation interests, including a general manufacturing plant (stoves, frozen food storage units, etc.) in Nashville, Tenn., and part ownership of the ACF-Brill Motors Co. They will be incorporated in a new company, the Nashville Corp. By the deal, Convair's present parent, Victor Emanuel's Avco Manufacturing Corp., will get the controlling interest in the new company. Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., Convair's second biggest stockholder, will take control of the aviation properties...