Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barnes's plan is to have his foreign Tribmen become "specialists in ideas rather than areas." Once his stable of world-trotting pundits is trained (one in diplomacy, others in business, labor, nuclear fission, etc.), he expects to move them as stories break. The Trib would rely on wire services for the first 24 hours of an important story, then close in with an expert who would stay with it as long as it made news...
Although this brain-child of the University Committee on Research and Nuclear Physics may not be assembled for several months, and though details on voltage, tonnage, and other by-words of modern technology are not yet ready for public consumption, workmen north of the Yard are readying the cyclotron base and accompanying research building for the day when the massive maguets begin to rip apart atoms...
This was the world's first uranium pile. Within it, if all went well, would rage the first nuclear chain reaction. Physicist Enrico Fermi, Italian-born Nobel Prizewinner, was sure that all would go well. He had figured every smallest detail, advancing through theory and mathematics far into the unknown...
...Russian nuclear physicists announced a discovery last week, the first they have made since the war (or been allowed to talk about). Physicists P. I. Lukirsky and N. A. Perfilov told the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. that they knew what happened to negative mesons: the powerful little particles struck atomic nuclei and died while breaking them up. Trumpeted S. I. Vavilov, president of the Academy, "This possibly begins an altogether new chapter in the physics of the atomic nucleus." U.S. physicists applauded mildly, while awaiting more information...
...encouraging factor is probably atomic energy. Chief trouble with earlier death rays was that no known source of radiation was strong enough to kill at a distance. But atom bombs do kill by radiation, mostly heat and gamma rays. If a method is developed to concentrate nuclear radiations into a narrow beam, death rays may be available to enliven World...