NEW YORK, April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., a unit of Oppenheimer Holdings, is pleased to announce that Shelby G. Tucker has joined the firm as Managing Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst covering Utilities and Independent Power Producers. He reports to John E.

By Fiege, Mark ABSTRACT The atomic scientists' intense fascination with nature helped them to produce the knowledge necessary to create the bomb.

By CARL BUTLER FILM about a top secret North Wales weapons factory is being shown to the public. The former chemical weapons factory site, at Rhydymwyn, near Mold, was always shrouded in mystery.

By Jim Bishop, Victoria Advocate, Texas Jul. 2--"What the people want is very simple -- they want an America as good as its promise." Barbara Jordan, congresswoman from Texas, 1973-79 Happy July Fourth, and happy birthday, U.S.A.

Sixty years ago Saturday, an atomic bomb was dropped without warning on the center of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. One hundred and forty thousand people were killed, more than 95 percent of them women and children and other noncombatants.