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...nominate for TIME Cover Face of the Year, a Woman of 1945, Dr. Lise Meitner, the Austrian Jewish woman scientist who developed the formula that broke open the atom. Many of your readers, no doubt, will be nominating Roosevelt or Truman or Stalin, and each of these is a worthy choice, but Dr. Meitner's contribution, I believe, will far outweigh the contributions that the others have made. For, as TIME has repeatedly pointed out, this is the atomic age, and the bomb will play a tremendous part in deciding whether the world of the future will have peace...
...sergeant, Larry Gould has been a scholar and professor. But several times he has played hooky in the remote corners of the globe. A geologist and geographer, he went on an expedition to Greenland in 1926, to Baffin Island in 1927, and to the Antarctic in 1928 as chief scientist and second-in-command of the famed Byrd Expedition. There, with Pilot Bernt Balchen and a radioman, he nearly lost his life in a gale that at one point held him "streamlined horizontally...
...specter is haunting this country-the specter of nuclear energy. As a scientist who worked on the atomic bomb, I am appalled that the public is so apathetic and so uninformed about the dangerous social consequences of our development. There is no secret of the atomic bomb. In my opinion, in two to five years other countries can also manufacture bombs, and bombs tens, hundreds, or even thousands of times more effective than those which produced such devastation at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This country with its concentrated industrial centers is entirely vulnerable to such weapons; nor can we count...
Canada's soldier-scientist. General Andrew G. McNaughton, chairman of the Joint Canadian-U.S. Defense Board, said cheerily that defenses against the atom bomb were "already clearly in sight." At the London conference U.S. diplomats had been reluctant to talk about the bomb. When the subject came up in private conversation, they would say something like: "Of course, the world knows that the U.S. would never. . . ." Such sentences usually trailed off into inaudible mumbles...
...Niels Bohr, famed Danish scientist who helped develop the bomb, gave ample proof that "the secret" was a fleeting asset. He told the world that current U.S. production of the essential element was 6.6 pounds of uranium...