"I Expect to Sleep"

ATOMIC AGE "I Expect to Sleep" From Rome, where he was on a lecture tour, one of the world's top nuclear physicists launched a prediction into the suspenseful calm with which the U.S. responded to the news of Russia's atomic explosion. Professor Enrico Fermi made the obvious but often forgotten point that Russia's Alamogordo does not, by any means, give her automatic parity with the U.S. Quantity, quality and means of delivery are crucially important. If the U.S. keeps ahead in these respects. Fermi could see no war for 20 years.

Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prizewinner, left Fascist Italy before the last war, continued his researches at Columbia University and became a U.S. citizen. He was a top man on the team that put the first chain-reacting pile to work in Chicago in 1942. Last week he prescribed energy and vigilance as antidotes for panic: "American supremacy is predictable up to 20 years if we work hard. As for me, I expect to sleep as well as my insomnia permits. I'm a fatalist by nature, anyway."

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