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...core of the estimate was a report submitted by a committee of scientific advisers headed by Physicist Hans Bethe and based on air scoops from the fallout of Soviet test shots, on seismographic recordings and on analyses of heat, sound and light effects. Added to the Bethe report were findings compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Atomic Energy Commission, Pentagon intelligence units and the President's own national security advisers. The evidence was overwhelming, leading to the conclusion that the Russians have made giant strides in the field of strategic thermonuclear weaponry, that they are rapidly catching...
...undergraduate scientist faces an equally difficult allegiance. He is preparing for a specialized vocation from moment he starts science at Harvard. The junior in physics is a physicist, cut off from his professionally uncommitted classmates. He's measured by tough professional standards, and his performance is vital to his future. By sophomore year, his choice of career is over, and his career has begun...
...with a touch of sadness that renowned Physicist Leopold Infeld, 63, a close collaborator of Albert Einstein, gave up his Canadian citizenship eleven years ago and returned home to Poland. After 17 years in the West, said Infeld at the time, "I have come to love and admire Canada's democratic spirit, its sense of fair play." Now chairman of Poland's Atomic Energy Commission, Infeld recalls these Western values-within the limits set by Poland's cultural commissars. In a semi-official magazine. Infeld dutifully asserts that freedom in the U.S. is diminishing, but adds...
...University of California says after viewing the evidence: "I was very much impressed. It must be taken seriously. Either these objects were contaminated in a most remarkable way soon after they arrived on earth, or else organisms have been transmitted from outside the earth's atmosphere." But Physicist Edward Fireman of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge points out that carbonaceous chondrites are porous and notoriously eager to absorb moisture, including organism-bearing sweat from the hands of people who touch them. He suspects that during the long years that the two meteorites have been on earth they...
...bombs, Clark believes that not even such a Doomsday Machine-should any nation ever be suicidal enough to use one-would completely wipe out human life. In deep caves or far-underground shelters, enough people might find refuge to wait out the radioactivity and emerge to begin again. Concludes Physicist Clark: "The indications are that the human race will survive the H-bomb, though it will be a close thing. Until some more efficient process is discovered, extermination will require a major effort by one or both of the great powers. Lesser states will have to be content with destroying...