Word: atom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Compared with 25 years for Russian Agent Gordon Lonsdale, only 14 for Atom Spy Klaus Fuchs...
...Twelve years ago last month, Brigadier General Bernard Schriever went to Inglewood, Calif., to start the Air Force's then-secret Western Development Division, a title roughly as revealing as that of the Manhattan Project, which built the atom bomb. Schriever's mission was to turn the drawing-board concept of a nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile into lethal reality-and fast. Intelligence estimates showed that the Russians had powerful rocket boosters that might enable them to get a commanding weaponry lead over...
...senses and his scientific observations all indicate that time always flows forward for particles and for any process in which they are involved. When a radioactive atom disintegrates into subatomic particles, the particles never reunite to reform the original atom. The universe itself is apparently expanding and radiating its energy into space like an unwinding clock...
...delicate an instrument is the human ear that at certain frequencies it can discern sound that moves the eardrum a distance only one-tenth the size of a hydrogen atom. The close-up roar of a jet engine amounts to one million billion times this threshhold level; this causes actual pain and soon brings on permanent deafness. Sound vibrations are transmitted by the eardrum and ossicle bones to the inner ear, a bony and membranous structure lined with tiny hairs that connect to the brain's auditory nerve. It is these hairs that are damaged most in noise-induced...
...pacifists encountered these forces. Their own appeal was based on their fundamental beliefs, not upon political reasoning or expediency. "Together," said a pamphlet they distributed, "we shall liberate one another from the bondage of insensitivity and restore moral virtue to human affairs. FOR WE SHALL DEVELOP THE SPIRITUAL ATOM BOMB and with it destroy the walls of hate and violence." And the response the received was also based on fundamental beliefs...