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...Mines, with its heavy machinery, and the athletic facilities were all removed or buried. There had been a Mining School at the University during the 1860's that had died, and the one installed in the Rotch Building was a brand-new department under the guidance of Professor H.L. Smyth. This one lasted all the way up to the 'thirties, and filled the building with testing labs containing full-scale mining and milling equipment...
...world where matter and energy are almost indistinguishable. They talk matter-of-factly of turning all of a sample of matter into energy. A single pound of anything, unfrozen in this way, will yield as much power as burning about 4 billion pounds of coal. Wrote Professor Henry D. Smyth (now an AECommissioner) in his famous 1945 Report: "Should a scheme be devised for converting to energy as much as a few percent of some common material, civilization would have the means to commit suicide at will...
...separation plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn. The Germans tried rather feebly and failed. The Russians, so far as is known, did not try at all until after the war. To start their bomb project, they did not have to wait for spy-gathered information or for the famous Smyth Report. The basic "secrets" were already in their files...
Lilienthal found his legacy tied to some annoying problems. Perhaps the most serious was the balancing of military security against the release of scientific information. Even after the release of the Smyth report, a publicly available how-to-do-it manual on the breeding and use of atomic energy--originally authorized by the Army, military officials in the atomic weapons program wanted the AEC to classify almost all atomic information. They also wanted to weed out all scientists not meeting rigorous security standards. At the same time, some very able men were quitting their jobs under the AEC because they...
Poor Bombs Are Easy. The trick is to bring them together quickly enough. If they approach one another slowly, they begin to react before they are fully in contact. The heat developed drives them apart prematurely, and the reaction stops. In the bomb described in the Smyth Report, the masses were driven together, probably in millionths of a second, by some such "low-order explosive" as TNT. Even if the Russians did not do as well as U.S. scientists, their less efficient bomb would still produce an "atomic explosion...