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They listened approvingly to experts on everything. Indefatigable Harold Stassen* was there to talk about world cooperation. Fiery Fiorello LaGuardia made a moving plea for UNRRA. Physicist Harold C. Urey and Major General Leslie Groves, Grand Panjandrum of atomic energy, explained nuclear fission...
...this most "backward" of islands, the most progressive of centuries would write in one blinding stroke of disintegration the inner meaning of technological civilization: all matter is speed and flame. Well might the stone giants embedded in the solid earth of Easter Island feel, in the far ripple of fission brought them by the waves, a tremor of finality...
...devil abroad in his 20th Century world is the ultra-rational scientist-technocrat, for whom man is the measure of all things; who would storm heaven with test tubes, nuclear fission and pure reason. Of one of his satanic prototypes Lewis says: "He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through Logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void...
...first peacetime victim of nuclear fission died last week. He was Dr. Louis Slotin of Winnipeg, Canada and the atom bomb laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, the cause of his death-exposure to radiation-may become a familiar factor in the atomic...
...photographic film had been fogged by mysterious radioactive particles in strawboard packaging. It shifted to a new source of strawboard 500 miles from the first; both were in the Middle West. The new supply also turned out to be radioactive. Apparently a large area had been peppered with fission products from the atomic bomb explosion...