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Only a handful of scientists understood what it was all about. The nonscientist simply took the handful's word on faith. It took him 40 years to see the proof that E = mc² means that an ounce of matter-sand, oxygen, uranium-holds within itself as much energy as that given off by the explosion of 875,000 tons of TNT. But in the flash of Hiroshima...
...destroyed the Jewish people, he made a decision that was to produce war's most destructive tool. One day in 1939, Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt. Nazi scientists, he said, might soon be able "to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium." "This requires action," F.D.R. said. Out of it came the Manhattan Project, and at last the atomic bomb...
...reactor being built by Westinghouse at Shippingport, Pa. will be fueled by a ten-ton core of uranium. Larger reactors of current design may use as much as 200 tons, which must be replaced every few years...
...four people in a plane, seat costs dropped as low as 5? per mile (v. 5? for scheduled airliners). The added savings in time and energy getting to remote spots was incalculable. Lumbermen bought planes to appraise mountain tracts more easily; ranchers used them for aerial roundups; construction men, uranium hunters, salesmen, all took...
ATOMS-FOR-PEACE PLAN will soon result in the first firm agreements with foreign nations for use ot U.S. uranium and know-how. The Administration is close to agreement on six bilateral pacts under which the U.S. would lease fissionable materials abroad in exchange for radioactive ores, and other nations would buy reactors from U.S. industry...