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Princeton Physicist Henry D. Smyth (rhymes with blithe), author of the Smyth Report and now an AECommissioner, hustled up to the Capitol to explain that chairmanless AEC was already having trouble enough trying to plan an H-bomb. Pike's rejection would leave the five-man commission shy two men-and, Smyth argued, make it doubly difficult to find replacements. "There is no doubt in my mind of Mr. Pike's intelligence, integrity, and complete devotion to the national welfare," said Smyth. In the strange world of the atom, Pike-a retired Manhattan mining and utilities financier...
...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...
...tacitly the disparaging remarks about the H-bomb by former AECommissioner Robert Bacher (TIME, May 15). Bacher had pointed out that hydrogen bombs could not be made without consuming neutrons (from U-235) which might be used more profitably for making plutonium. When questioned about Bacher, Commissioner Henry DeWolf Smyth remarked significantly: "He is a fairly competent man in this field." This is as close as AEC ever comes to giving a straight opinion on a matter of military import...