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...Made Moon," a comic opera in one act by Joel M. Mandelbaum '53, will have its first performance tonight in Paine Hall. Peter G. Neumann '54, Robert A. Cortwright '58, and Peter J. Achinstein '56 head the cast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Opera Bows | 2/18/1956 | See Source »

...late 1953, Trevor Gardner, Assistant Air Secretary for Research and Development and onetime electronics manufacturer, was assigned to study the whole situation. He gathered a topflight military staff, and consulted civilian scientists of the highest caliber, one of whom was Mathematician John Von Neumann, now an Atomic Energy Commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Missiles Away | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Thermonuclear Breakthrough. Gardner's survey, completed in early 1954, covered the missile front, but dominating its conclusions was a carefully reasoned forecast by the nuclear physicists. In a relatively few years, predicted Von Neumann and his associates after long sessions with their calculating machines, thermonuclear explosives would be light and handy enough to be carried by long-range missiles of reasonable size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Missiles Away | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...Spur the Soviets. Murray did not succeed, however, in persuading his four fellow members of the AEC that this biggest show on earth would be worthwhile. Commissioners Lewis Strauss, Willard Libby, John von Neumann and Harold Vance formally replied: "It should be noted that Russian and other foreign observers were invited to the tests at Bikini in 1946, where they witnessed atomic explosions of previously unimaginable destructive force. This demonstration, however, did not persuade the Soviet government of the need to join with us and other nations in an effective system for the international control of atomic energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Biggest Show on Earth? | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...Confirmed New Jersey Mathematician John Von Neumann as an atomic energy commissioner and Ohio's Republican Lawyer George C. McConnaughey as a federal communications commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: End of a Dream | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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