Word: smyth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chapter 5, para. 34, page 87, H. D. Smyth's official report on the atomic project: "President Truman, who as a United States Senator had been aware of the project and its magnitude...
...light of the past, the significant fact about 1945 was that it was the last year of World War II. But in the light of the future, it was the first year in which civilization possessed, in the sober words of the Smyth Report, "the means to commit suicide at will...
...close relative of uranium, thorium is another radioactive, heavy element (atomic number 90, atomic weight 232.12) that disintegrates into lower-weight elements and eventually becomes lead. Of the three standard radioactive progressions - uranium-radium, actinium and thorium-those of uranium and thorium are the most alike. According to the Smyth report, thorium was considered as a basic source of atomic power, but uranium was chosen instead...
Only two topical books, General Marshall's Report-The Winning of the War in Europe and the Pacific and Professor Henry de Wolf Smyth's Atomic Energy for Military Purposes (popularly known as the Smyth Report on the atom bomb) measured up at all to the year's massive events. And in a field not commonly of concern to laymen, there appeared, not by plan, but apparently in response to a growing human need, a swatch of books on philosophy, religion and related subjects...
...main trouble with all the atomic books, besides their frenzied haste in production, was the secrecy which still surrounds atomic physics. Since the Smyth Report first appeared (Aug. 11) no more information had reached the public. All informed scientists were still muzzled by postwar military security. Only those certified ignorant might write freely and without caution on the subject...