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Light Shield. Airplanes cannot carry massive concrete shields like those around the piles at Oak Ridge and Hanford. A lighter shield is needed. The most deadly radiations are neutrons and gamma rays...
...Christian Smuts, the wise, venerable, oak-solid Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, was out of office. South Africa, which had been considered safe in the fold of the British Commonwealth (and which last year lent ?80 million in gold as a prop for Britain's sterling), had suddenly embarked on a perverse, isolationist, acutely race-conscious road that might lead to secession from the Commonwealth and to maltreatment and oppression of the country's 9,000,000 non-Europeans...
...green balls. Lights flashed and the cluster split in two. At the drop of another ball, scores of other fluorescent ping-pong balls started dancing and popping around in a cage. In this entertaining way, the Monsanto Chemical Co., which ran atomic research at the Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge until early this year, demonstrated the principles of atomic fission and a chain reaction to the worried citizens of Miamisburg...
...Oak Bluffs, Mass...
...life of the mountains in the days before the fighting began: little streams, dropping 25 feet to the mile, with names like Grapevine, Blackberry, Sulphur, Sycamore, Turkey and Buffalo; old families of English stock bearing names like Vance, Chafin, Smith, Weddington, Varney, Cline and Trent; forests of oak, cherry, walnut, hickory, linden, beech, sycamore; cabins with quiet hospitality, plenty of food, and courteous, high-strung, honest and proud people...