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...thought to tarry, Came to the town, found an apothecary And said, 'Sell me some poison if you will, I have a lot of rats I want to kill...
...Flying Poison. But one implication of the test explosions is no secret. Atomic bombs set to explode underground are expected to play a big part in future warfare. Air bursts, as used over Japan, affect only the surface of the ground. As both sides burrow deeper, placing their vital installations deep in soil or rock, the atom bombs will go after them, sending rock waves to wreck them as no air waves...
Another military factor will be the vast amount of debris thrown out by an atom bomb that penetrates earth or heavy buildings. It will be highly radioactive, and chunks of it flying for miles will poison large areas. The Army engineers say they are not interested in the bits of rock that were thrown three miles by their scaled-down bomb. But atomic bombardiers will certainly take note...
...everyone appreciated young Manning's independence and way of doing things. He was fired off the famed Leviathan (nee Vaterland) after a year at cross-purposes with the captain; on one ship, the stewards tried to poison him by dumping roach powder in his coffee. Says Manning: "I was an awful son of a bitch in those days." His hands still bear the scars of knives wielded by a stowaway and what Manning calls "various obstreperous members of the crew...
...here for his Ph.D., while spending his summers doing research for a private firm. In 1917 Conant went into the Scientific branch of national defense for the first time. For two years he and a group of associates worked on the ways of developing and then producing new of poison gases. At the war's end Conant returned to Cambridge with an appointment as an assistant professor of Chemistry. His brilliant work had attracted the notice of Professor Richard, chair man of the Chemistry Department...