Word: atom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Open Mind. By 1934, he was savvy enough to ask his friend Albert Einstein a prophetic question: could man unlock the atom's energy? Einstein's reply: "No, never. We are marksmen shooting at birds in the dark, and in a country where there are very few birds...
...Nikolai Kozyrev. Dr. Hall believes that the fierce heat of returning sunlight may have released gases from the lunar interior. At a Dallas conference on newly discovered astronomical objects last week, Nobel Chemist Dr. Harold Urey suggested that the gas may have contained carbon in the form of two-atom molecules that cannot exist on earth. If further evidence proves that the spots really do exist and are indeed caused by eruptions of gas from the moon's interior, they will present one more difficulty for would-be lunar explorers...
...peace. We do not know-and the Soviets do not know-what the stars will tell us. We do know that to defaul-the exploration of the universe of space would surely be as catastrophic in its consequences as if we had defaulted exploration of the universe of the atom...
...Tanganyikan delegates to the U.N. was duly exercised. The U.S., he said, was plotting with South Africa to test atom bombs. He had read all about it in the newspapers...
...freer international trade for the United States and a greater economic unity for Europe. And in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, he concluded an historic treaty that remits the slow, agonizing enervation of mankind by the atom, that postpones a little longer man's destruction of himself...