A profile by Dickson Hartwell in the February 1946 issue of Pic caught Campbell in a typical moment: If you want to know what a hell of a fix this world is in I suggest you listen for a few minutes, in a mood of deepening gloom, to Mr. Atomic. . . . It is not the way he says it so much as what he says about the future which makes Mr. Atomic the man of the hour. For it was he who scooped the world press on the atomic bomb, not by hours or weeks but by years.
