Do you realize, ladies and gentlemen, what these things would mean for us?” Every scrap of solid matter in the world would become an available reservoir of concentrated force. “Given that knowledge,” he said, “mark what we should be able to do! We should not only be able to use this uranium and thorium not only should we have a source of power so potent that a man might carry in his hand the energy to light a city for a year, fight a fleet of battleships, or drive one of our giant liners across the Atlantic but we should also have a clue that would enable us at last to quicken the process of disintegration in all the other elements, where decay is still so slow as to escape our finest measurements.
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