ATOMIC POWER—RICHARDSON 159 
both physicist and astronomer were concerned with the investigation 
of the fine structure of matter, the physicist in his laboratory on the 
earth, the astronomer in his laboratory of the sky. And investigation 
of the fine structure of matter was directly responsible for the atomic 
bomb. 
The essential identity of the two lines of research is tacitly recog- 
nized in President Truman’s statement, “The force from which the 
sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war 
to the Far East.” 
