1. Dr. Briggs’ first years of retirement were spent, at Secretary Wallace’s request, compiling the report on NBS War Research (1949). Latter, Wallace to LJB, Oct. 11, 1945 (NARG 40, Box 112, file 67009, pt. 1, 7–12). See also E.U. Condon, “Lyman James Briggs (1874–1963),” Year Book, Am. Phil. Soc., 1963, pp. 117–121
2. One result of that concern was the publication of One World Or None (eds. Dexter Masters and Katharine Way, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1946),a report to the public on the meaning of the atomic bomb. Contributors to the report included Einstein, Bohr, Compton, Bethe, Langmuir, Oppenheimer, Szilard, Shapley, Seitz, Urey, Wigner, and Condon.
3. Communications to the author from Henry A. Wallace, Jan. 7, 1964,and from Dr. Hauser, Jan. 29, 1964 (NBS Historical File). See also Wallace letter in New Republic, 118, 10 (1948). For Wallace’s possible prior interest in Dr. Condon, see letter, LJB to H.A. Wallace, Aug. 2, 1945,sub: Standing of certain scientists (NBS Box 504,IG).
4. Hearings * * * 1947 (Jan. 29, 1946), p. 175.
5. Biographical note, “About Edward U. Condon,” What is Science? ed. James R. Newman (New York: Washington Square Press, 1961), pp. 105–108; interview with Dr. Condon, Oct. 27, 1963. With P.M. Morse, Condon writes Quantum Mechanics (1929) and with G.H. Shortley, The Theory of Atomic Spectra (1935), both standard works in their fields.