Word: smyth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famous Smyth Report (Atomic Energy for Military Purposes) appears this ominous sentence: "The fission products produced in one day's run of a 100,000-kilowatt chain-reacting pile might be sufficient to make a large area uninhabitable." The Smyth Report appeared in 1945. Since then, "radiological poisons" have hardly been mentioned, much less evaluated publicly as a military weapon...
...further Smyth opinions, see SCIENCE...
...seat on the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Henry DeWolf Smyth (author of the famed Smyth Report) has found time for reflection. He concludes in the current American Scientist that "in the world of today, science and freedom are necessary to each other...
Every year, says Dr. Smyth, practical technology becomes more dependent upon theoretical science. It is dangerous, he explains, to concentrate on sciences which seem to lead toward immediate practical goals: "Evidence shows that the value of science to technology comes from totally unexpected quarters and that the only safe objective to set up for science is the one which it has already set up for itself: an increased understanding of the laws of nature...
...Smyth believes that Nazi contempt for intellectual freedom strangled German science and through it German technology. He suspects that Russian dogmatism will do the same. "Some of the things," he warns, "that happened in Germany and are happening in Russia could happen here . . . We are in a dilemma that . . . can be simply stated by the questions: How much should we talk? or, How much talk should be permitted...