Word: atom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to quantum theory, an electron in an atom can exist at any one of several discrete energy levels. When an electron falls from a higher level to a lower one, the atom gives off radiation at a specific frequency--for example, a microwave or a light wave...
...Army leadership also was to blame, as it groped for a new mission in the age of the missile and the atom. With what money it had, the Army joined the interservice scramble for space, developed the Jupiter-C that launched the first satellite in 1958. Army Research and Development spent millions perfecting the intermediate-range, nuclear-tipped Jupiter missile (no kin to Jupiter-C), only to have it taken away by the Department of Defense and given to the Air Force. Other sorely needed Army funds were spent on such Buck Rogers gimmicks as the one-man helicopter...
...howitzers, and such missiles as the Honest John, the 75-mile Corporal, the 200-mile Redstone and the 25-mile Lacrosse. In addition, NATO's tactical air forces, built around U.S. fighter-bombers, could unleash an overwhelming nuclear bombardment. Fighting with the atom, NATO has calculated that it could stop the Russians, even if they threw 40 divisions into the attack and supported them with their own tactical and strategic weapons...
...Nina Petrovna Khrushchev at the Moscow House of Friendship. Russia's first lady remained friendly even when one of her guests asked her, over apples and chocolates, to "convey to your husband the deep concern we feel that within the past month the Soviet Union has tested 17 atom bombs...
Ever since the atom became a weapon, the U.S. has been creating new programs for arms control and disarmament as fast as the Russians can reject them. Last week, in his address to the U.N. General Assembly. President Kennedy put forth still another U.S. offer to get started on planning for peace. This time the President picked up and took as his own the Soviet Union's perennial demand for "general and complete disarmament"-but backed up that sweeping plea with some specific proposals. Kennedy's steps toward disarmament included...