Word: atomically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next foreign minister, Peru's Fer nando Schwalb Lopez. With Schwalb, Rusk talked economics and the Alliance for Progress. An hour later, with Ire land's Frank Aiken, the subject was the Congo. With Brazil's Joao Augusto de Aranjo Castro, the proposal for an atom-free zone in Latin America came up. Rusk said the U.S. would accept such an arrangement if it included Cuba and permitted U.S. transport of nuclear weapons through the Panama Canal...
...reinforces the obvious: it is not the sort of effort in which a crash program is likely to justify the cost in either money or manpower. Some jobs do lend themselves to the crash approach; some complex tasks are indeed susceptible to all-out, crash attack. The wartime Manhattan (atom bomb) Project, which was attacked simultaneously in three different, expensive ways, was a world-saving success, but the basic physics of the atom bomb was well understood in advance, and nature was not likely to hold surprises that would force replanning. The moon project is of a different order...
Just what the U.S. military would do in space is not entirely clear. Aside from sophisticated surveillance satellites, there seem to be few military space projects that appeal to such tough-minded civilians as Secretary of Defense Mc-Namara. An orbiting atom bomb might scare some people as it swept over their countries; but if it were called down on an enemy city, it would be no more destructive than a single ballistic warhead. It would be vulnerable too, for its orbit could be calculated and small atom-armed rockets could be shot up to wreck it. Orbiting military posts...
...seen more technological change than in all recorded history. It took 112 years for photography to go from being discovered to a commercial product, 56 years for the telephone, 35 years for radio, 15 years for radar, twelve years for television. But it took only six years for the atom bomb to become an operational reality, and five years for transistors to find their way from the laboratory to the market. You might say we are in danger of being engulfed by change...
...William L. Russell of Oak Ridge had some unhappy news for the atom-age world. He presented impressive evidence that a dose of radiation stretched over a long period produces more mutation in mammals than the same dose concentrated in a short period. Since nearly all mutations are harmful to unborn generations, this finding makes even moderate amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout seem like a serious threat to man's future...