Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program of strenuous industrial expansion, but with more decorum, stability, efficiency-and less tolerance of corruption. He is a frequent, admiring visitor to the U.S. "I love to stroll in the streets of New York," he says, "lost among 8,000,000 people. There, one is just an atom." He intends to continue Mexico's policy of close friendship with the big neighbor to the north...
...station would also be useful, Von Braun says, for launching atom-armed guided missiles. They would spiral downward red hot, and their descent would be timed to keep them in view of the space station. Their targets on earth would be visible too. As the missile approaches its target, its course could be corrected by radio from the station, making a square hit inevitable. Once a supply of such missiles had been stockpiled in the orbit, potential aggressors below would be forced to keep the global peace...
...Braun has answers for all his critics. What the U.S. needs, he believes, is a daring, inspiring program that has a real chance of controlling the world. Atom bombs carried by airplanes are nearly worn out as war preventers. Guided mis siles are important weapons, but the Russians are working on them too. He thinks that a satellite station would put the U.S. far ahead in the race for power, and that no other program offers as much promise...
...complied with the woman's request, though few could read the English-language document they were asked to sign. Next day Israel's Communist newspaper announced proudly that some of Israel's most distinguished religious leaders had begged President Truman to commute the death sentence of Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...
...apparatus, however, can record the energy released by invisible radiation from the neutral hydrogen atom when its single electron does a "flip flop" (reverses its spin). By calculations astronomers can then place the gaseous clouds in their proper position in space...