Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was the substance of the Baruch plan? That if human beings made sense it would work; if they didn't, it wouldn't. The problem was not nuclear physics but human organization...
...devil abroad in his 20th Century world is the ultra-rational scientist-technocrat, for whom man is the measure of all things; who would storm heaven with test tubes, nuclear fission and pure reason. Of one of his satanic prototypes Lewis says: "He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through Logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void...
...first peacetime victim of nuclear fission died last week. He was Dr. Louis Slotin of Winnipeg, Canada and the atom bomb laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, the cause of his death-exposure to radiation-may become a familiar factor in the atomic...
...nuclear physicists heard wistfully about their untrammelled Swedish colleagues. Sweden, they mused last week, might be a fine place to work. Some of them thought that refugee scientists from Axis countries, who played so important a part in the Manhattan Project, might move on to Sweden in search of professional freedom. If they did, the little Scandinavian country might become an important factor in the world's atomic affairs...
...bright to know that the planes of World War II are already obsolete, were busy promoting a grand-scale Air Engineering Development Center for studying and testing the air weapons of tomorrow. They talked Buck Rogers language. Some topics: supersonic aircraft-piloted and pilotless-planes and rockets powered by nuclear energy, space ships, space bases that would float above the atmosphere, where gravity's pull is weak as a kitten's. An old-line pilot might just as well hang up his goggles and retire...