European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                From it science forged the wars most fearful gave Japan the final blow and opened a new Era of vast Energy that Man be harnessed for these six pages Tell the by Jonathan Kilbourn yank staff writer think of the smallest thing you can conceive then Divide it by two billion that will give you an approximate idea of the size of the atom which provides the Energy for the most weapon in the the atomic the bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki contained billions of an atom consists of almost inconceivably tiny particles of negatively positively charged and any Given amount of any thing consists of atom billions of like the Small particles of Sand on an Ocean everything you see around everything you see or touch is made of you each atom is like our solar system in the smallest in the Center is the the around it revolve the called but they whirl billions of times faster than our science has broken Down into component parts the Sun of the atom this nucleus is com posed of a conglomeration of individual particles of protons and protons Are positively neutrons Are the atom solar system would burst apart it there were not a Force to bind it this Force is supplied by the attraction Between the one or More protons in the nucleus arid the atom s Electron which Are negatively holding our Little atom system together takes terrific this Means not Only the end of the atom world within its unimaginable like a minute judgment temperatures of millions of degrees Are pressures produced Are far and away the most violent reactions until this reaction was first human beings  even conceive of such the reaction depends on no chemical element for combustion it is entirely the crashing destruction continues until the entire atomic solar system Breaks what happens to the exploded particles and How can this miniature cataclysm be created because the explosion is Over so takes place in Only of a de tails of the reaction Are hard to and bringing about this cataclysm is doubly difficult because atoms Are not packed tightly to trying to smash just any old atom in a molecule or piece of matter would As Albert Einstein puts like trying to shoot ducks on a dark night in a Section where ducks Are there would be millions of misses for every the component parts of the atom world Are few and far like our solar the atom is mostly the atom Sun occupies Only one Millionth of a billionth of the atomic solar systems if All the electronic planets and empty space were taken from the myriad of atomic solar sys tems that compose a 150pound and Only the nuclei there would be left a Lump no larger than a Ball of taking the electrons and space from this 150 Pound mans miniature solar systems would leave a neat Little Lump without producing an explosion beyond for atomic disintegration is not the kind of explosion we Are familiar Ordinary explosions and fires Are started by the separation from one and the of the molecules themselves remain but the Energy that held them together is released in heat and Light and explosive we daily see atomic but from so far that we Are not familiar with their Char the suns heat and Light and the Many rays it sends Forth Are produced by such expo that go much farther than the Mere separation of molecular atoms sep Arate from one and the disintegration goes farther the atoms themselves break an incredibly greater amount of heat and Light other forces Are some so powerful that they have Only been guessed the disintegration of one atom in the Labora tory causes havoc in the atoms solar system but none in the room this is because a Chain of atom numbers of have to go off to equal the detonation of a fire yet a combination of atoms Little larger than a pea could cause terrible destruction be cause of the billions upon billions of atoms it to create such a and favourable circumstances for bombarding that Are the primary problems of the atom smasher and the makers of the atom haphazard bombardment of the atom is like shooting peas at an electric the Speed of the electrons in their orbits makes the atom practically impede the electrons successfully resist most positively charged a has no electrical but neither can it move because it has no scientists who wish to break into the Well defended atom world cannot whirl the Neu tron by itself in their giant atom disrupting cyclotrons or in the atom to give the Neutron motive scientists sometimes use the heavy Hydrogen which contains a nucleus in which a Proton and a Neu tron Are the heavy Hydrogen atom is whirled in the magnetic of the when the heavy Hydrogen atom hits the the uranium atom to be Hydrogen nucleus Breaks into the uranium atom goes the the atom target of the Neutron can be uranium one of the uranium atoms and the atom with the most powerful electric guards of u235 has 92 positively charged particles in its nucleus which repel any Proton stranger that crash its ninety two Electron planets solve around and these satellites repel All Active the reason Why unsociable uranium instead of some More companionable material is that u235 the number is its atomic one of the atoms in becomes unstable when its weight is increased by one unit by shooting a Neutron into the same is True of the artificial chemical element created by science to provide a super atomic Energy which has an atomic weight of heaviest in whenever the balance of its system is broken by a either u235 or plutonium smashes into two nearly equal the heavier the the greater the binding Energy necessary to hold it when the uranium atom is split in two parts and two lighter atoms Are these two together re quire less Energy to hold together than the atom from which they were whats left goes out in the form of excess and whats left is Electron that sounds like a but its just a Flicker of a match in the atomic within its sphere the effect is utterly but unless the atomic systems disintegration spreads to other similar it is not observable by the naked Eye of when the rapidly travelling neutrons hit a nothing happens in the Ordinary nature of at High speeds the 235s Are just slow the Neutron Down a and the atom when neutrons float through the air they penetrate the 235s with the greatest of v these Are some of the words which everybody sometimes rightly and sometimes in about the atom bomb of the billions of almost inconceivably Small solar systems of which the 92 separate known elements Ura of the universe Are of the containing one or More neutrons and one or More particle found in the particle found in the particle which speeds in an orbit around the nucleus of an or More atoms joined in Chen atomic weigh number expressing the ratio of the weight of an atom of one taking that of oxygen to be 16 Hydrogen is Luminous White Metal which comes from pitch Blende and is found principally in can Ada and atom having an atomic weight of atom with an atomic weight of natural element created by science As a super atomic Power u has an atomic weight of Cyclotron giant atom smashing machine which scientists used for research preceding the development of the atom Hydrogen atom this pillar of All that Hiroshima it was hit by first atom bomb to be dropped uranium atom orbits electrons uranium atom is most Complex and rarest of its nucleus consists of 92 protons and 143 around which whirl 93 electrons in seven slowed Down by Frozen split Chain reaction