Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Begin . . ." But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from their present course-both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final...
Lanky, roughhewn Glenn Seaborg has more qualifications for running the AEC than mere desire. He is a top-rank nuclear scientist. He was a co-discoverer of the element plutonium, crucial in the development of the atom bomb. That achievement won him a 1951 Nobel Prize. His work in the laboratory has been continuously fruitful. Asked what he does, he answers with calculated simplicity: "I discover elements." To date he has been instrumental in adding nine more to the periodic table...
Cole admits that people who become cells in a unit of macrolife will have to surrender many cherished human freedoms. But so, he insists, will people who stay behind on the jampacked, atom-threatened earth. Except for unprogressive folk who insist on clinging to individual identity and the traditional attributes of humanity at all costs, Cole feels that a space-cruising, inside-out world with its controlled gravity and an artificial sun should prove a delightful place to live...
...first B-52H bomber, designed to serve as a launching platform for four long-range (1,000 miles), air-launched Skybolt missiles. The airplane itself is powered by eight new Pratt & Whitney J57 turbofan engines, has a range of 10,000 miles, will be able to launch its atom-tipped Skybolts without having to make deep, dangerous penetrations into hostile airspace. The 6-52-Skybolt weapons system will have one advantage over ground-launched rockets: it can be recalled at any time before it reaches the release point for its birds...
...five smaller branches around the state. Wilson raised salaries to attract better teachers, made Texas the first state university in the country to require entrance tests for all students. He launched a $35 million building program, aimed at scientific prestige with a new computer center and an atom smasher. He even persuaded the regents to stop spending the income from the university's $360 million endowment (second only to Harvard's) on buildings alone. Two-thirds of it is now going into new schemes for academic "excellence...