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...makeshift laboratory beneath Chicago's Stagg Stadium, Eugene Rabinowitch heard the tick of the future...
Cheerful Smile. The little man who has wound the Bulletin's fateful clock for all its 18 years is unbothered. From his jaunty blue beret down past his ineffaceably cheerful smile to his ground-hugging overcoat, Eugene Rabinowitch, 63, bears small resemblance to a prophet of doom. He seems much better suited to his other roles: professor of botany and biophysics at the University of Illinois, world authority on photosynthesis, a Russian-born poet who composes in his native language and has translated Pushkin into German...
There, scientists were well on their way, in wartime's secret Manhattan Project, to devising the world's first atomic bomb. Rabinowitch, whose impressive reputation had preceded his arrival in the U.S., was asked to join them. Like many of his colleagues, he was appalled at the project's goal. Soon after the war ended in the holocausts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he and 200 other scientists formed a committee called The Atomic Scientists of Chicago. They felt deeply guilty about their role in unleashing the atom, and they longed for atonement. In 1945 the committee spawned...
Only One Choice. "I just have a general feeling of horror," the State University of Iowa's Space Expert James Van Allen told TIME. "We have only one choice. We've got to obtain an inspection-system agreement with the Russians-and fast." Said Eugene Rabinowitch, editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "We need to rededicate ourselves to world law. We will give up some of our sovereignty, perhaps, but in return we may well be saving the human race." Harvard's Henry Kissinger (Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy} suggests "an effective international agency...
...From Eugene Rabinowitch, authority on photosynthesis, now editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...