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...Geiger counter. 5. Radarclave...
...growing stack of trophies. His prize, a packet of lead-wrapped fragments of fused soil from the crater of the first atomic bomb explosion in New Mexico, reposes in a Manhattan safe deposit box together with some government bonds. Planning to visit the vault some day with a Geiger counter to see whether the fragments are still radioactive, Leonard is prepared for anything - even the possibility of seeing remnants of his bonds fly out of the box like a swarm of moths...
What to look for is uranium's radioactivity. The best loker is the portable Geiger counter, which finds uranium under the ground as a hog smells out truffles. The prospector carries it over the hills, poking into crevices. In his earphones he hears a few clicks stirred up by cosmic rays and normal earth radioactivity. If the clicks come faster, his heart generally beats faster too. If they swell to a roar, he may be near a uranium bonanza...
Uranium is not an uncommon element, but known big deposits are few. If a prospector should find one of these, his troubles would have only begun. The U.S. (like nearly every nation) regards uranium as strictly Government property. At the end of every Geiger rainbow, an FBI man is waiting...
...more obscure fronts, the prospect was not so bright. The Russians might get the atomic bomb (a German scientist escaped from Russia last week said they would soon have it). If equalization took place in this way, Washington would probably learn about it from Geiger counters capable of "hearing" radioactive particles thousands of miles away. When those Geigers begin to click, war will be nearer...