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...military attaché, Colonel Nikolai Zabotin, "in view of the inadmissibility of the activities" of members of his staff. The secrets he got were not very good ones, Moscow added in tactless vexation, because they could be found in published works, including the "well-known pamphlets of the American Smyth." Quipped one wit: "The Russians complain the diamonds are paste...
...biggest week for nuclear physics since the Smyth Report came out. Scientists of the General Electric Co.' announced that their mighty betatron, which generates 100 million-volt X rays, had shattered not only atoms but also attacked the sub-atomic particles themselves. Bombarding neutrons and protons with their powerful X ray, the G.E. men had produced mesons*-particles whose mass is partway between a proton and an electron...
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...
...TIME, not Professor Smyth, erred...
...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...