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...Physicist Seitz wants to prostitute his scientific talents inventing weapons of destruction, that is an affair of his own conscience and he should be free to do so, but he is guilty of the very thing he most decries when he attempts to dictate to the consciences of his colleagues...
...Physicist & His Girl Friend. In a sense, the case of Frédéric Joliot-Curie was the weirdest of the three. France, the democratic nations' chief ally on the Continent, receiver of nearly four and a half billion U.S. dollars since the war's end, which had solemnly signed the Atlantic pact and was last week receiving its first shipment of U.S. arms, maintained an avowed Communist Party member as the chief of its atomic-energy program...
Last week AEC decided that one press enterprise had overstepped the danger line. It ordered the monthly Scientific American (circ. 78,878) to delete four technical paragraphs in a 5,000-word article on the hydrogen bomb by Dr. Hans A. Bethe, Cornell physicist and wartime chief of theoretical physics at the Los Alamos laboratory. Although the April issue containing the article had already gone to press, AEC summarily "requested" the presses stopped-the first time it had taken such a drastic step. It burned 3,000 copies already run off, melted down the type and impounded every galley proof...
...Physicist Seitz knows that some of his colleagues hate to develop new means of mass slaughter. They distrust military men, cringe at the thought of exposing themselves to spy hunts. But Dr. Seitz is convinced that they must. Otherwise, they will endanger "the most important ideals which have been evolved by mankind since the dawn of civilization . . . Who among us will feel sinless if he has remained passively by while Western culture was being overwhelmed...
...fraternity. For example, the continued partisan attacks on the top administration of the Atomic Energy Commission, on issues that appear absurd to most scientists, has probably done as much to impede the progress of that organization as could a number of well-placed Russian agents." What is needed, says Physicist Seitz, is a hard-hitting, imaginative agency like the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development...