Word: ridenour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John H. Van Vleck, chairman of the Physics Department of the University, submitted two supplementary documents describing the futility of defenses against atomic attack. The supplements were prepared by I. A. Getting, division head of the M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory, and N. Ridenour, professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania...
...Ridenour, an expert on guided missiles, declared, "Of two principal important causes of means for using the atomic bomb, the first, and overwhelmingly the most important, is the infernal machine, or mine, which has been located in operating position during peacetime...