Word: atomizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Scientists, often suspicious of political advice from laymen, listen attentively when their colleague, tall, mild-mannered Dr. Frederick Seitz, 38, of the University of Illinois, has something to say. One of the most respected of U.S. physicists, he played a key part in the wartime development of the atom bomb. In an article in the current Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Dr. Seitz issues a call to arms which has caused an extraordinary stir in scientific circles...
Before a gathering of 50 people in Harvard 1, Lamont predicted that Americans are going to be surprised by the news of the peaceful purposes for which Russia will use the atom bomb. He explained that political dictatorship in the Soviet Union is only a transitional step towards a socialist democracy...
...Atoms don't stand a chance any more; the atom-smashers are laying for them all over the place. Newest and most powerful of the smashers is Columbia University's cyclotron at Nevis, an estate at Irvington-on-Hudson that once belonged to James (son of Alexander) Hamilton. The 2,500-ton monster generates a beam of protons with 380 million electron volts of energy. Such voltage is too powerful for mere atom-smashing, which is considered scientific child's play nowadays. The Nevis machine was designed for probing deeper secrets of matter...
Britain was staggered by the realization that, in checking the political reliability of a top scientist working on the atom bomb, British security agents had simply ignored the fact-written black on white in a government file-that he had been a Communist. An indignant tornado swept up from Fleet Street. Lord Beaverbrook's papers even accused newly appointed War Minister John Strachey of being a Communist (see FOREIGN NEWS). Sir Percy Sillitoe, the tall, burly former South African police officer who heads M.I.5 (British counterespionage), conferred with Prime Minister Attlee; a shake-up of British security services...
...know in detail how destructive the A-bomb is. I know quite well how destructive the H-bomb can be, if it can be built. But I ask you: What good comes from the extravagant and sensational picturing of the horrors of atom warfare? Does this serve the purpose of scaring the rulers of Russia and thereby act as a deterrent to aggression by them? Of course not. Men who are frightened by word pictures do not become the iron rulers of a large part of the earth...