Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock face was intended to scare the world. Its hands, spanning the cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, were originally set at an ominous eight minutes before midnight. After the Russians exploded their first H-bomb, Bulletin time read two minutes before the hour of doom. Today the clock is still on Bulletin's cover, but it has shrunk to an inconspicuous size, and registers a relatively unfrightening 11:48. The minutes that, in the editors' view the world has gained, measure a strange triumph for the magazine. Now that there is less concern about Armageddon...
There, scientists were well on their way, in wartime's secret Manhattan Project, to devising the world's first atomic bomb. Rabinowitch, whose impressive reputation had preceded his arrival in the U.S., was asked to join them. Like many of his colleagues, he was appalled at the project's goal. Soon after the war ended in the holocausts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he and 200 other scientists formed a committee called The Atomic Scientists of Chicago. They felt deeply guilty about their role in unleashing the atom, and they longed for atonement. In 1945 the committee spawned...
...National Observer found enough similarities between De Gaulle's France and Mao's China ("both potential nuclear powers . . . neither signatories to the limited atom test ban treaty") to support its contention that these two buddies just had to get together. "A risky flirtation with utterly inhuman revolutionaries," editorialized the Columbia, S.C., State. The Chicago Sun-Times predicted that one bad move would lead to something worse. "To welcome a government, its hands dripping with the blood of its neighbors, into the United Nations is a refutation of that organization's ideals. And to those nations that have...
Ploughshare optimism is based on studies of a long series of craters blasted by both chemical and nuclear explosives in the Nevada desert. The first, called Buster Jangle-U. (1951), used a crude atom bomb with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. It dug a circular hole 53 ft. deep and 258 ft. in diameter. The next shot, Teapot-Ess, had the same yield, but it was placed deeper and it dug a deeper and wider crater. With these and other shots, Ploughshare scientists built up a body of theory and experience in which they have great confidence. Latest and largest...
...Atomic Energy Commission also gets hit. Said the President in his speech: "We are cutting back on our production of enriched uranium by 25%, shutting down four plutonium piles." It is widely agreed that the U.S. has enough enriched uranium to suit any foreseeable purpose. Still, one argument against such a cutback was that it would mean job losses in places where plants were closed. The President answered that one by telling aides, "We're not going to produce atom bombs as a WPA project...