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The Earth as a man‐controlled space ship

JUL 01, 1962
The following is based on an after‐dinner talk at the Colorado Springs meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society in November 1961. The author retired in January of this year from his post as Technical Associate Director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory after having served as a member of the LASL staff for more than eighteen years.
Darol Froman

I am very happy to have the opportunity tonight to express the pleasure of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in cosponsoring this meeting on Plasma Physics. The fine facilities and cooperation of the Air Force and the excellent accommodations in this hotel certainty constitute a fitting environment for the scholarly papers and discussion I heard today.

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Darol Froman, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.

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