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...pointed out that they could not give orders to Travancore's Maharaja, an independent ruler. The handsome, enlightened, 34-year-old Maharaja, who in 1937 established a university for technological research, has now said that he wants to build thorium refining plants, and perhaps even experiment with nuclear fission, in Travancore. That was a reminder that the great powers had no permanent monopoly on the atom...
...game, and should the banner of Green be unfurled Fair Harvard's buildings will not collapse. 'Tis no nuclear fission, no Hiroshima. Nay, no Shakesperian tragedy. The sun will shine as brightly Sunday--Lest perchance should rain come down like Niobe's tears...
Life at Sukhum. When the Reds punched into Berlin, they threw a cordon of troops around the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute, whence the news of uranium fission had first startled the scientific world in 1939. They went down into the cellar, dismantled the big cyclotron, packed it carefully off to Stalinland. Among the men they carried off was Baron Manfred von Ardenne, 39, a brilliant physicist...
...really advanced physicists, nuclear fission is old, dull stuff. What excites them now is "ultra-nucleonics," study of "the elementary particles within the atom which are capable of releasing thousands of times as much energy as is produced by the nuclear fission on which the A-bomb is based." To these men, trained in the esoteric mysteries of quantum mechanics, all matter is merely condensed energy. It is formed by the interaction of waves, and to waves it can return. What a triumph it would be, they speculate, to turn matter all at once into waves of energy...
...vast and obvious failure of foresight is [that] Brave New World contains no reference to nuclear fission. . . . The next phase may be atomic warfare . . . but it is conceivable that we have enough sense [to confine ourselves] to a period, not indeed of peace, but of . . . only partially ruinous warfare. . . . During that period the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must...