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...Rabinowitch, a 51-year-old, Russian-born physical chemist who worked on the Chicago bomb project and now teaches at the University of Illinois, had no trouble finding writers. He has seven Nobel Prizewinners on his editorial board. Scientists like Albert Einstein, Harold C. Urey, Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard write for him for nothing...
...seems one could not, not right now at least. The column presented the arguments of two physicists named Arnold and Szilard both of whom had much to do with the original atomic bomb. Szilard had claimed last April that a Hydrogen-Cobalt bomb would distribute enough radioactivity around the earth to wipe out everybody. Arnold recently disagreed, estimating that for $40,000,000,000 such a bomb could be built, but that the bomb's explosion would leave some areas relatively uncontaminated, some people relatively alive...
Aiken is substituting for Leo Szilard, professor of physics, at the University of Chicago, who wired yesterday that he is ill and unable to attend the meeting...
Tons of Neutrons. This week, on a similar broadcast, Brown repeated his shocker. Physicist Leo Szilard of Chicago added that 50 tons of neutrons released by hydrogen fusion could ring the earth with a radioactive dust layer capable of killing the earth's entire population. Physicists Frederick Seitz of the University of Illinois and Hans Bethe of Cornell, appearing on the same program, were more moderate, but they went along generally with their emphatic colleagues...
...astonishment or distaste. They point out that no one knows accurately how much continued radiation is needed to kill a man. There may be preventives or cures. No one knows how H-bombs will work or how soon they can be made to work. Kindly critics say that Brown, Szilard et al. have been led by emotion to confuse the worst possibilities of the future with the sufficiently alarming present. Some, not so kindly, charge that the alarmists, however well-intentioned they may be, are helping to frighten the U.S. public into forcing dangerous concessions to Russia...