Abstract
MUCH has appeared in print and been heard in recent weeks about atomic energy ; but an authoritative survey of the technical and scientific development of the pastfew years in the field of nuclear physics is still lacking. The second volume of Penguin Science News is, therefore, very welcome, because it is a collection of seven articles, written by prominent nuclear scientific workers, covering some of the more important technical and scientific aspects of the subject of atomic energy. The question of international control, and the political and social consequences are not dealt with specifically. The authors, some as members of the British and others of the American staff, were at one time engaged together on the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos, and thus write with first-hand knowledge of the problems which were tackled and solved in the production of atomic energy for military purposes. Each of the seven articles is self-contained and may be studied separately. Science News, 2 Atomic Energy Number. Edited by Prof. R. E. Peierls John Enogat. Pp. viii+168+15 plates. (Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin Books, Ltd., 1947.) 1s. net.
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