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"At Liuan there is the memory of one of Liu's raids. In 16 days of occupation the Communists milked the area: 20,000 bags of rice, 6,000 bolts of cloth, 800 drums of kerosene, piles of padded winter garments, all paid for in I.O.U.s marked 'Democratic...
No Interest. The U.S. used its successful graphite piles to produce the explosive element plutonium. The Germans, according to Heisenberg, realized in a vague way that this was possible. But the Nazis did not build cyclotrons and other necessary instruments in time. So they did not even try to produce...
President Truman got ready to offer the world's scientists free access to an atomic byproduct-the radioisotopes produced in Oak Ridge's atomic piles, generally considered the most important aid to medical research since the invention of the microscope.
The bomb-tamers of Los Alamos had a ticklish assignment: to make their bomb explode, but gently, in slow motion. How they solved the problem has not been fully explained. Uranium piles are kept from reacting too fast by inserting cadmium rods into the graphite. The rods absorb neutrons and...
Down the steep cobbled streets of La Paz, coca-chewing Indians trotted under huge packs of bundled alpaca hides. In the market sun, Indian women in outlandish derby hats and bright-colored skirts haggled over little piles of shelled corn. It was winter, the good time in the Andes. The...