Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Chief of Staff, called for an investigation to determine whether the damage could have been prevented and whether the Air Force should park fewer of the big planes at any one field. To some bewildered citizens, the most amazing report was that the 107-more of the big atom-bomb carriers than the U.S. had even publicly acknowledged owning-had been lined up wing to wing. As the U.S., of all nations, had the most reason to know, enemy attacks can be as unpredictable as tornadoes-and even more disastrous...
Like the original atomic-energy plant at Oak Ridge, the Pike County installation will produce U-235, the radioactive isotope whose fission can produce the energy for an atomic-bomb blast. A major step in the current U.S. program to speed up atomic stockpiling in the light of Soviet possession of the atom bomb, construction of the Pike County plant is expected to take four years, though some units of it will go into operation earlier than that...
When AEC drew up its list of prospective builders recently for the Ohio atom plant, Kiewit's name was one of a dozen or more recommended. But in weeding the list down, the AEC decided that ever-ready Kiewit was the only one with enough equipment and men at the ready to tackle the job immediately. Earth-Mover Kiewit was pleased, but not satisfied, when he won the second biggest contract in history...
...pioneers who staked out the new boundaries of modern literature were Novelists Feodor Dostoevsky and Franz Kafka. Dostoevsky made a pre-Freudian exploration of the grand canyon that separates a man's public acts from his private thoughts-the split in the human atom. But in Dostoevsky's day the social frame within which his split men operated was still all of a piece, held together by principles of law & order and morality. By the time Kafka came on the scene, early in the 20th century, the frame itself was split. The rules and principles of Dostoevsky...
Chemist Libby's water clock will be based on the same principle as the carbon 14 calendar. Some ten miles high, in the stratosphere, cosmic rays stream in from outer space. With far more force than an atom-smasher, the cosmic rays collide with nitrogen atoms. The crash produces hydrogen, carbon 14 and a minute amount of radioactive tritium. The atoms of cosmic tritium join molecules of water vapor and fall to the earth in snow and rain...