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...fused to form a helium atom and a neutron, releasing a sizable burst of energy. But before that can occur, deuterium nuclei generally need to be compressed with sufficient force to overcome their mutually repellent electrical charges. In H-bombs, that force is supplied by the detonation of an A-bomb. Conventional fusion techniques require giant magnets, powerful laser beams and particle accelerators. But none of these approaches have succeeded in generating more energy than they...
With these words, spoken in January, Zinder formally launched a monumental effort that could rival in scope both the Manhattan Project, which created the A-bomb, and the Apollo moon-landing program -- and may exceed them in importance. The goal: to map the human genome and spell out for the world the entire message hidden in its chemical code...
...March 5, 8 p.m. EST). The development of the A-bomb, retold as a three-hour TV movie. Brian Dennehy stars as the general who headed the Manhattan Project; Michael Tucker (L.A. Law) plays a top scientist; and David Ogden Stiers handles the F.D.R. impression...
...year-old Paul Stephens (Christopher Collet); that his coconspirator, Jenny, is played by a picture of innocence named Cynthia Nixon; that the exchange takes place at a high school science fair, where the competing projects involve things like soap bubbles and gerbils--and that they really do have an A-bomb in her auto...
...Kahuta is just one outcropping of a far bigger nightmare: nuclear proliferation, the spread of atomic weaponry, has entered a new and ever more ominous phase. As the 40th anniversary of the A-bomb explosion over Hiroshima approaches, the world has special reason to view what is happening with trepidation, at the very least. On the Asian subcontinent, in the Middle East, in southern Africa and, to a lesser degree, in South America, a number of countries have acquired or are in the process of acquiring the capacity to build atomic weapons. At the same time, the fragile international system...