Against the somber background of international crisis, economic recession and strident politics, the world got a breathtaking glimpse of a bright and shining future. Reported a joint announcement by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and Britain's Atomic Energy Authority: scientists in both countries have come close to achieving in the laboratory the energy-releasing atomic fusion that produces the radiance of the sun—the same fusion that, man-made but uncontrolled, provides the vast destructive might of H-bombs (see SCIENCE). Wrapped up in the scientific terminology was the prospect that mankind will one day be able to live in a world where power,...
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