Morrison, Philip

Morrison, Philip. "If the Bomb Gets Out of Hand." In One World or None, edited by Dexter Masters and Katherine Way. New York McGraw-Hill, 1946. 

Philip Morrison was a young student of the American physicist Robert Oppenheimer at the time, and he recalls when fission was discovered, within perhaps a week there was on the blackboard in Robert Oppenheimer s office a drawing - a very bad, an execrable... 

Charles and Ray Eames made a 1968 ten-minute documentary film, Powers of Ten, showing the universe at different scales, from the cosmic scale down through the human DNA, its atoms, and beyond. The Philip and Phylis Morrison were scientific advisors on the movie, which Philip Morrison narrated. It was elected in 1998 for preservation in the National Film Registry, which selects culturally, historically or aesthetically significant motion pictures for preservation. The resulting book is ... 

Each December, Philip and Phylis Morrison compile and review a selection of outstanding new science books for children. 

Toni Morrison edited by Justine Tally Nabokov edited by Julian W. Connolly Eugene O Neill edited by Michael Manheim George Orwell edited by John Rodden Ovid edited by Philip Hardie Harold Pinter edited by Peter Raby (second edition)... 

Second, says Oppenheimer, I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Philip Morrison, one of the wittiest of the young theoreticians, polio-crippled and poor, remembers in compensation the very grave, very profound involvement in physics, the love of the whole thing, which we all had in those days. Oppenheimer could take his admiring students to dinner he was unable to find them jobs. And through them, he testifies, I began to understand how deeply political and economic... 

To men used to the blizzards and dust of Wendover, Utah, the 509th s historian claims, Tinian looked like the Garden of Paradise. The surrounding blue ocean and the palm groves may have occasioned that vision. Philip Morrison, who came out after Trinity to help assemble Fat Man, saw more reverberantly what the island had become, as he told a committee of U.S. Senators later in 1945 ... 

The apparent proximity of the explosion would be one of its trademarks, much as its heat had seemed intimate to Philip Morrison and his colleagues at Trinity. 

Edward Teller returned to Los Alamos in April 1946 to chair a secret conference. Its purpose, according to a subsequent report, was to review work that has been done on the Super for completeness and accuracy and to make suggestions concerning further work that would be needed in this field if actual construction and test of the Super were plaimed. John von Neumann, Stanislaw Ulam and Norris Bradbury attended the conference, as did Emil Konopinski, John Manley, Philip Morrison, Canadian theoretician J. Carson Mark and a crowd of other participants. One whose presence would vitally affect U.S. nuclear weapons policy later was Klaus Fuchs. 

I am grateful to many other people who assisted me with my research inquiries or visits, namely Peter Jenner and Hector Verykios, NATO headquarters, Brussels W. A. Morrison, Counsellor and Military Adviser, Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations Major C. Trull Robert A. Mosher, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense Miss Anthea Buckeridge, Embassy of the United States Joyce L. Sulahian and Ingrid Lehmann, United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs and Mary Derr, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. I would also like to thank several librarians and archivists for their assistance and co-operation, especially Mr Philip Reed, Deputy to the Keeper, Department of Documents, the Imperial War Museum Mr C. A. Potts, Ministry of Defence Library Mr Sven Welander, Chief, League of Nations... 

Solution of the PB equation in cylindrical coordinates is relevant for the case of pores with charged walls filled with an electrolyte solution. This case has been treated analytically by several authors (Morrison and Osterle 1965 Rice and Whitehead 1965 Philip and Wooding 1970 Rice and Home 1981 Sigal and Ginsburg 1981 Olivares and McQuarrie 1985 Rice 1985 Rice and Home 1985). For the linearized PB Equation 3.11 applied to a pore fiUed with a uniform solution (Rice and Whitehead 1965), the potential is given by... 

The Atomic Bomb," January 10, 1946, transcript (published February 15, 1946) copy given by Tim Moy and in author s possession. Philip Morrison, "If the Bomb Gets Out of Hand," in Masters and Way, One World or None (New York McGraw-Hill, 1946), 6. Louis N. Ridenour, "There Is No Defense," in Masters and Way, One World or None, 33. Nelson and Schiff, Our Atomic World, 6. Federation of American (Atomic) Scientists, "Survival Is at Stake," in Masters and Way, One World or None, 78 Lewis Mumford, "Gentlemen You Are Mad " Saturday Review of Literature 29 (March 2, 1946) 8. 

H. B. Martin and J. Philip W. Morrison, Electrochem. Solid-State Lett, A 2001) E17. 

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