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Scientists, often suspicious of political advice from laymen, listen attentively when their colleague, tall, mild-mannered Dr. Frederick Seitz, 38, of the University of Illinois, has something to say. One of the most respected of U.S. physicists, he played a key part in the wartime development of the atom bomb. In an article in the current Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Dr. Seitz issues a call to arms which has caused an extraordinary stir in scientific circles...
...physicists, says Seitz, must forget their "sense of sin" about the atomic bomb and their feelings of guilt. They must abandon their "one world" pacifism. They must pitch in and help at once, or the civilization they love will sink back into medieval darkness...
Tons of Neutrons. This week, on a similar broadcast, Brown repeated his shocker. Physicist Leo Szilard of Chicago added that 50 tons of neutrons released by hydrogen fusion could ring the earth with a radioactive dust layer capable of killing the earth's entire population. Physicists Frederick Seitz of the University of Illinois and Hans Bethe of Cornell, appearing on the same program, were more moderate, but they went along generally with their emphatic colleagues...
Died. Karl Seitz, 80, greybeard of Austrian socialism, first president (1918-19) of the newborn Austrian Republic's national assembly, onetime Burgomaster of Vienna (1923-34); in Vienna. Ousted from office and thrown into jail by the Dollfuss regime in 1934, Seitz was released after ten months, but did not return to political life until 1945. He spent the last year of the war in Nazi concentration camps...
Determined Nations. Some of the early guesses about the timing were remarkably accurate. In One World or None (March 1946), Drs. Frederick Seitz and Hans A, Bethe, who worked on the U.S. bomb, estimated that "any one of several determined foreign nations could duplicate our work in about five years." The Russians actually did it in a little over four years, counting from Hiroshima. But they may have started sooner than that, and they certainly had some help from German atomic scientists...