THE ATOMIC AGE: Cheer Up

Polite, Alsatian-born Dr. Hans A. Bethe, professor of theoretical physics at Cornell, worked three years on the atomic bomb. Last week he brought the Senate's Atomic Energy Committee a relieving note of cheer:

"It . . . seems extremely unlikely that there will be any possibility of igniting the atmosphere or the sea by atomic bombs."

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