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Most of the scars seemed to result from the patients' burns, but there were puzzling exceptions: when a skin graft was taken from an unburned part of a patient's body, a keloid often developed there too. Could the victims' exposure to fission products-neutrons, gamma" rays, etc.-have something to do with it? The doctors did not know for certain, but they suspected that keloids might be ugly forerunners of cancer...
...Atomic fission, says Dr. Teller, is still in its infancy, of course: "Actually it is quite unsound to limit our attention to atomic bombs of the present type. These bombs are the results of first attempts, and they were developed under wartime pressure. ... In a subject as new as atomic power, we must be prepared for startling developments. . . . Future bombs may easily surpass those used in the last war by a factor of a thousand...
...picture will probably do no great harm unless it discourages the making of better pictures on the same subject. But it will do no particular good either. Far from straining at the seams of security, it tells the average citizen little he doesn't already know about atomic fission. Of the peculiar terror and agony of the bomb in human terms, it tells incomparably less in two hours than certain newsreel shots of Hiroshima's survivors told in as many minutes. The treatment of the moral problems exacerbated by the bomb is once-over-lightly. Problems of atomic...
...lesser powers are concentrating on research rather than plutonium production-and they have some of the world's most brilliant atomic scientists. Niels Bohr, who back in 1939 pointed out theoretically that it was the rare U-235 which underwent fission when bombarded by slow neutrons, heads the Danish program. Two other Nobel Prizewinners, Manne Siegbahn and Theodor Svedberg, lead the work at Sweden's new laboratories. The Swiss Federal Council has voted over $4,000,000 for atomic research...
Barnes's plan is to have his foreign Tribmen become "specialists in ideas rather than areas." Once his stable of world-trotting pundits is trained (one in diplomacy, others in business, labor, nuclear fission, etc.), he expects to move them as stories break. The Trib would rely on wire services for the first 24 hours of an important story, then close in with an expert who would stay with it as long as it made news...