Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Graham became president of the Oak Ridge (Tenn.) Institute of Nuclear Studies, a position in which he was to be given access to confidential U.S. military information. The Security Office of the Atomic Energy Commission took one look at Frank Graham's FBI file, thicker than a metropolitan telephone book, and refused to clear him for access to atomic information. Then the AEC made its own investigation. Last week, it cleared Graham. It was true, the commission conceded, that Graham, in espousing liberal causes, had at times been associated with persons and organizations "influenced by motives or views...
Oppenheimer and other U.S. "colleagues," congratulating them on their "fine job" in achieving nuclear fission. To Oppenheimer, there was nothing very remarkable or shocking about this: it simply illustrated how international science has always been...
...carried the major responsibility for the organization of the nation's civilian scientific effort in the development of new weapons, exercising absolute dictatorial power over men and materials in the two billion dollar research program which developed radar, new devices in the field of chemical warfare, and, finally, nuclear physics," the citation reads...
What sort of engine would be used? Poole was vague. It would not be a nuclear turbojet, he said, or a steam turbine, or a ramjet. All these had been tried and found wanting. The atomic engine, said Poole, would be a "nuclear rocket." That was all he would say. The nature of the nuclear rocket, he said, is secret...
Another atomic hint came from Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis L. Strauss, speaking at the University of New Hampshire. He mentioned "packaged" nuclear power. It might be possible, he said, to place material in a uranium pile and make it highly radioactive by bombarding it with neutrons. Then it could be taken out and used as a kind of atomic storage battery to run a power plant...