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… from invasion by an enemy possibly able to employ an atomic bomb. Craigie in turn wrote to Hoover, doing his best …

… become minister of defense, a member of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, and temporary president of the …

… the nightmare scenario that the Germans might develop an atomic weapon before the West did. In July of 1938, writing …

… environment. . . . It applies rigorously to molecules and atoms as well as to the largest heavenly bodies, and to all …

… to investigate seriously the possibility of creating an atomic bomb, a number of scientists associated with the …

… 20, 1940. 22. William Laurence, "Vast Power Source in Atomic Energy Opened by Science," NYT, May 5, 1940. 23. OAP …

… January 9, 1943, FBI records. 44. Rhodes, Making of the Atom Bomb, 352–53, 412. 45. Bloyce Fitzgerald would end up …

… may have read of particle accelerators, or cyclotrons, or atom smashers. A particle accelerator is a circular loop of …

… in different directions, each one a smaller, white-hot, "atomically-burning sun." It was determined by calculations, …

… defense against offensive use by another nation of the Atomic Bomb" (Conroy 1945). Within a year, the program was …