Word: fissioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this quite straight in our minds," she said. "It is not what men discover that changes the structure of society. It is how men legislate upon those discoveries which change the structure of society . . . The discovery of nuclear fission has not changed, and will not solve, one underlying problem of the world today . . . Energy and matter, which we now know to be one, are both amoral. Man only is moral or immoral. We have only to reflect that if all the large nations of the world were led today by moral men, instead of immoral ones, [development of] atomic energy...
...Harvard, the eminent educator became chairman of his alma mater's chemistry department before assuming its presidency in 1933. In World War II, as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he bossed a $2 billion research program to develop radar, antiradar, various chemical warfare projects, and nuclear fission. Putting in some 250,000 miles of travel, bounded by Cambridge, Washington and Los Alamos, he deputized for Vannevar Bush, served as consultant for Major General Leslie Groves, was the No. I intermediary for scientists, generals and industrialists who helped fashion the Abomb. Since...
...basic principles were worked out long before World War I, but the popular vogue probably grew out of two great technical achievements of World War II. Nuclear fission convinced the public that "science can do anything." The German V-2 rocket proved that a man-made vehicle can climb briefly into space. The head of the V-2 project, Dr. Wernher von Braun, is still only 40 and is the major prophet and hero (or wild propagandist, some scientists suspect) of space travel. As a boy, Dr. von Braun wanted to go to the moon. He still does...
Like the original atomic-energy plant at Oak Ridge, the Pike County installation will produce U-235, the radioactive isotope whose fission can produce the energy for an atomic-bomb blast. A major step in the current U.S. program to speed up atomic stockpiling in the light of Soviet possession of the atom bomb, construction of the Pike County plant is expected to take four years, though some units of it will go into operation earlier than that...
...Sparks & Fission. The company seemed near disaster when Charles Francis Adams Jr.,* a director who was just out of the Navy as a destroyer commander, moved in as head of a rescue committee. Says Adams: "None of the other directors wanted the job because they'd lose their reputations if we went under. I, having no reputation to lose, said sure, this is a challenging situation." Adams, a Harvardman ('32) and investment banker, got Raytheon into fighting trim, soon stepped on to the bridge as executive vice president. Four years ago Laurence K. Marshall, who had founded...