Word: fissioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the mass of fact and solid inference about atomic fission, TIME has abstracted twelve key points...
Fifty men & women who thought they knew how to bridge the perilous fission between these ideas met at Dublin, N.H. They were invited by four distinguished citizens: former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts; Grenville Clark, a New York attorney who did much to sell conscription to the U.S. public before Pearl Harbor; Robert P. Bass, Governor of New Hampshire (1911-13) and Bull-Moose friend of Theodore Roosevelt, and Thomas H. Mahony, a locally prominent Boston lawyer and internationalist...
After giving such fascinating hints about the talents of its betatron, G.E. retreated again into silence. Obviously, a gadget which transmutes elements so handily has more than a nodding acquaintance with nuclear fission, science's most secluded subject...
Remember Galileo! Truman's stand coincided with a gathering revolt of U.S. scientists. An important array of them feared that a U.S. policy based on illusions of secrecy might destroy the kind of free research which had made atomic fission possible. Even the sort of control recommended by the President would inevitably touch fields of research far beyond the military uses of the atom. Atomic development could not be totally controlled, nationally or internationally, without also controlling a large part of normal, peacetime scientific effort...
Parable in Poznan. Important as they were to Russia and to Europe, the Balkan treaties in themselves were not enough to drive the Big Powers so far toward fission. One evident reality was that Molotov did not want to defend Russia's oppressive Balkan regimes before too big an audience; his objecting to French and Chinese participation was his way of avoiding that unpleasant task...