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CHESTER W. HILL Brookhaven, Miss...
...Camp Upton the U.S. Government, through the Atomic Energy Commission, last week formally began a project called Brookhaven National Laboratory, which will eventually cost about $50,000,000. Nine major Eastern universities will jointly administer the laboratory, which will have a permanent staff of 300 scientists and 2,000 other personnel. Visiting scientists will come to Brookhaven to use the costly equipment...
Scientists connected with Brookhaven are careful to say that the laboratory will not develop new atomic explosives, but will concentrate on making nuclear physics benefit humanity. But the project will do no harm to the national war potential. Atomic secrets (if any still exist) may yet leak or be rediscovered abroad. The job of Brookhaven and other U.S.-sponsored laboratories is to develop atomic know-how so fast that the U.S. lead cannot be overtaken...
...others: Clinton Laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Argonne National Laboratory at Chicago; Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island...
...Brookhaven, Miss...