Word: a-bomb
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...then there is the possibility of a nuclear showdown with Iraq, which the Bush Administration has zeroed in on to make urgent the need for war. In his two red-alert speeches late last month, Vice President Dick Cheney flatly warned that Saddam would acquire an A-bomb "fairly soon." With it, he said, Saddam could "seek domination of the entire Middle East, take control of a great portion of the world's energy supply, directly threaten America's friends and subject the U.S. to nuclear blackmail...
...citizenship in the eyes of Japanese law?while retaining both European Union and Japanese citizenship in the eyes of British law. On a civic level, even Hiroshima, my home for eight years and, according to its tourist literature "the international city of peace," denies Korean conscripts killed in the A-bomb blast a monument in Peace Memorial Park because its foreign presence would sully the sanctum's purity. "Internationalization," as oft-quoted a mantra here as anywhere, means little on street level beyond flag-bunting, expressway signs in English and more Starbucks franchises...
...make much difference when it comes to Einstein's science. But, like Zackheim, most people are slowly discovering that Einstein was not simply the secular saint they grew up with--the aureole-haired, sock-shunning professor who solved geometry problems for little girls, alerted F.D.R. to the German A-bomb peril and then wept over the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
With the onset of World War II, Von Neumann was recruited for the Manhattan Project and played a role in building both the A-bomb and the H-bomb. His main contribution was supervising the vast and complex mathematical calculations--done first by hand and later by primitive electronic computers--required to design the bombs...
...less volatile than they were a few years ago. The party has been forced to make a series of compromises in its climb to power. And its portly, affable Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 71, is a scholarly moderate who last week, as he was garlanded with flowers by A-bomb celebrators, posed conspicuously with Muslim well-wishers...