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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With care, and great trepidation, the physicists laid the bricks. They knew they were deep in unknown territory; anything might happen. Around them hummed southside Chicago. Nearby, students passed on their way to classes...
City of Pluto. The original pile at Chicago had been a ticklish business, but the giant piles at Hanford were studies in unexplored dangers. Theory warned that as soon as they started working, they would generate floods of deadly radiation and produce unknown radioactive elements, most of them fiendishly poisonous: These effects could conceivably be so powerful and so long-lasting that no living thing could approach a pile which had once been in operation...
...Twenty thousand exhilarated Argentines massed in downtown Buenos Aires. There were shouts of "Death to Peron." One man fought a duel with an umbrella against a sword-wielding police officer. An unknown number of revolvers were more or less harmlessly discharged. Fifty persons were arrested. After three and one half years Argentina's state of siege had been lifted...
...years the Vanadium Corp. of America jogged along in its own quiet way, all but unknown to the public. Last week it was blasted into the limelight. Vanadium is one of the chief suppliers to the atomic bomb project...
...part of the answer was unknown and unknowable: would, or could, the Japanese continue to resist until each of their cities had been atomized, and then fight on the beaches, in the fields and the hills, and in their countless caves, until every sacred acre had been physically conquered...