Word: atomically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy made the enemy think they could do anything and Wilson wouldn't fight . . . I think Ike brought about the armistice in Korea with a quiet little leak that we just might consider a change in weaponry, meaning we might loose that thing we had loosed once before (an atom bomb). Almost overnight we went to an armistice table...
Rubbia, who shared the Prize with Simon van der Meer of Holland, headed a team that used a 200-ton atom smasher to produce clear evidence of the subatomic W and Z particles. These particles, sought by physicists for 10 years, are believed to carry the "week force," one of the four fun damental natural forces in the universe...
Organ transplantation is no isolated controversy; the issue arises as one problem in the relationship between science and public policy. Technology, whether it be artificial hearts or atom bombs, continually outruns both ethical standards and public policy in two ways. The sometimes inconceivable new power of scientific advances that give us the ability to tinker with DNA, to replace a defective heart, disrupts the ethical standards we use to judge those powers. Secondly, the sheer speed at which science forces issues upon us outstrips ethical standards. Rapid technological change leaves little time to assess consequences; we cannot know what...
...blew out windows in a 15-story office building a block away. But it did not crack a single pane of the shatterproof glass in the embassy or injure any of the 309 people inside. Said an embassy employee: "They'd have had to hit us with an atom bomb to shake this place...
...which had brought millions of refugees pouring into India, helped send the economy into another spin. The badly divided Congress Party was widely accused of graft and incompetence. Mrs. Gandhi's main interest was in claiming the role of a great power. She detonated India's first atom bomb in 1974 and reached out for Soviet aid and weaponry to re-equip India's armed forces...