In December 1945 I was 29 years old and testifying before the U.S. Senate on how nuclear energy, under civilian control, could benefit the world, not destroy it. As I began, Sen. Warren Austin leaned over and asked me, "How old are you?" This was a natural question. Many of us involved in the Manhattan Engineer District—the World War Ⅱ atom bomb project—were very young.
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