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Fission to Fusion. At the end of World War II, only two ingredients were in the nuclear picture. They were uranium 235 and plutonium, both of which are fissionable, i.e., the addition of a single neutron to the atomic nucleus splits the nucleus, with a vast release of energy. Later a third nuclear ingredient, fissionable U-233, was made out of nonfissionable thorium...
...original nucleus had begun to grow and in some ways to change. First, the early productions had drawn increasing support from Bostonians who were willing to support what publicity director Catherine Huntington calls "pure theater with no commercialism, which is attractive to the artist element." The mailing list has come to include 1,200 possible season members ($10) or patrons ($35). So the Theatre has moved onto very solid financial ground...
Leach believes that any new program must: train civilian experts for government work in national defense; create a nucleus of informed public opinion on defense matters among University graduates; conduct research aimed at improving policies...
...contributors represent a wide diversity as well as a strong nucleus of Cambridge writers," he added...
Each man got copies of all the books assigned, kept them as a nucleus for his own private library...