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In a California courtroom, an accused murderer will soon be confronted by a novel adversary. A witness for the prosecution will be an atomic scientist, armed with "radiation fingerprints," evidence that can be as accurate and reliable as a photograph of the actual crime. No ordinary cop could hope to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Atomic Eye | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

Neutron activation analysis functions best as a reverse application of the common fingerprint technique-instead of gathering evidence a criminal leaves at the scene of his crime, it permits examination of evidence that the scene (or the weapon) leaves on the criminal. It can serve as an omniscient monitor of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Atomic Eye | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

PHASE 4: the flow is increased to high pressure, sending a dense cloud of vapor into the air. The fueling is completed. The transporter-erector is removed from the missile. Twelve minutes have passed. At any point up to two minutes before the launching, the U.S.A.F. officer may turn his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: KEY TO EXISTENCE | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

The CCA campaign revolves almost entirely around the School Committee issue, which to the reformers has come to signify the worst sort of politics in the schools. Although the CCA platform contains other planks--"advancement of the long-range city-wide building program, co-ordination of the building program with...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Elections Feature Bitterness, Comedy | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

Some of the things in it for industry, said Glennan, are the uses of radioactive waste from the operation of reactors. Possible uses: activation of phosphors for luminous signs and markers, static eliminators for a variety of industrial processes, reduction of starting-voltage requirements in process-control instruments which incorporate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rush for the Atom | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

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