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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McDonald Heads Project...
...under the auspices of the Massachusetts State Department of Health and the Children's Medical Service of the Massachusetts General Hospital. The centers, under the direction of Dr. Francis McDonald of the staff of the General Hospital, opened for business on Monday and are part of a government research project on child health administration...
...study project stands as the second of its kind in the country, since a similar one is going into its second year at the University of Washington in Seattle. Designed to case the strain en veterans' wallets, the program was set up after Cambridge doctors expressed concern over the problem of protecting the health of the concentrated GI child communities...
...Tools. Almost as soon as the war started in 1939, the Germans learned (Heisenberg does not say how) that the U.S. had allocated funds to research on atomic energy. The Germans quickly set up their own project. But, says Heisenberg: "Public interest in the problems of atomic physics was negligibly small between the years 1933 and 1939." [the Nazi prewar period]. Germany had no cyclotron, and only two "adequately equipped laboratories." Lacking proper tools, her physicists were seriously handicapped...
...German atomic project was never very large. Heisenberg estimates that it cost only about 1/1000th of what the U.S. spent ($2 billion) on The Bomb. Anyhow, top Nazis were never completely sold on the idea. Says Heisenberg: "The undertaking [of making an atomic bomb] could not even be initiated against the psychological background of the men responsible for German war policy. These men expected an early decision of the war, even in 1942, and any major project which did not promise quick returns was specifically forbidden...