Word: atomically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon had saved a few bold foreign-policy promises for the final fortnignt's campaigning. In Toledo Nixon promised, if elected, to ask Ike on Nov. 9 to send Cabot Lodge off to Geneva as U.S. negotiator at the two-year-old Geneva atom-test talks. If the talks succeeded, there would be a summit. If they failed by Feb. 1, "the U.S. will be prepared to detonate atomic devices necessary to advance our peaceful technology." In Muskegon, Mich, next day, Nixon promised, if elected-in a manner reminiscent of Ike's "I will go to Korea...
...Harvard clock a thin trickle of hydrogen gas flows through an apparatus that splits its two-atom molecules into single atoms. Each of these atoms has one proton and one electron, but some of them have slightly more energy than the others because their electrons are spinning in a different way. When the atom stream shoots through a system of magnets, the low-energy atoms in it are deflected sideways while the high-energy ones converge, pass through a small hole in a 6-in. quartz bulb. The bulb is lined with paraffin which does not affect the atom...
...Answer. The waves of krypton 86 have none of these failings. They cannot be lost, destroyed, damaged or stolen (there is krypton in all air), and scientists believe that their length, which is determined by the properties of the krypton 86 atom, will never change at all. Anyone with the proper equipment (present cost about $100,000) can reproduce, even a million years from now, the standard unit of length adopted in 1960. By use of an interferometer-an optical device that counts wave lengths and fractions of them-the new light standard gives measurements accurate to one part...
Last week the U.S. asked West Germany (which is forbidden by treaty to allow manufacture of atomic bombs) to classify the newest design as secret. But scientists say that the secret is already out. The Brazilian atomic energy commission already owns three early models of the West German machine, and an Amsterdam professor is designing others "for commercial purposes." When the U.N. Political Committee takes up the subject of disarmament this week, there should be a new urgency about the Big Four at last reaching agreement on controlling the atom...
...would not be difficult to negotiate a full-scale arms control system in the Western hemisphere, Chayes asserted. Such a system would "give the United States a chance to experiment with inspection techniques." At present, "any South American government can get the atom bomb, and any can fall under the control of a Castro or a Peron." Chayes also suggested negotiating an "arms embargo for black Africa...