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Greenglass' bomb is not necessarily up to date, complete or accurate, but some of the information he spilled is plausible enough. His is the only description of the bomb mechanism that has reached the public since the famous Smyth Report...
...stimulated other scholars, and soon they were turning up new and startling additional information about Kittredge's Sir Thomas. It appeared that Sir Thomas had been a prodigious troublemaker in his day, had tried to ambush the Duke of Buckingham, had broken into the home of one Hugh Smyth and raped his wife Joan, had extorted 100s, from a Margaret Kyng and a William Hales and 20s. from a John Mylner, had broken into Hugh Smyth's place and raped Joan again, had gone to Leicestershire and there stolen "seven cows, two calves, a cart worth...
...women have made a name in music as composers, fewer still as operatic composers. The only authoressed opera ever produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, Englishwoman Ethel Smyth's Der Wald, fizzled after two performances in 1903. But last week a onetime Metropolitan contralto-turned-composer was making a valiant...
...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...
...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...