Word: atomically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chain reaction of setbacks hits the industry, but the need for power remains It began with such promise. The scientists and engineers who had shown the terrible destructive power of the atom at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were going to harness its tremendous force in an atoms-for-peace program. They would build nuclear power plants producing electricity so easily that it would be "too cheap to meter." At a time when technology promised an almost boundless potential for improving humankind, nuclear power seemed so modern...
...Reagan to the Japanese Diet, an honor no previous U.S. President had been accorded. Reagan concentrated on themes of alliance and peace. The U.S. and Japan "can become a powerful partnership for good," he declared. Speaking of arms control, the President of the only nation ever to use atom bombs in war told the elected representatives of the people on whom the bombs were dropped that "a nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought. The only value in possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they can't be used, ever...
...world-renowned scientists who once worked together to develop the atom bomb squared off last night over the next development in the arms race--weapons for outer space...
...young people, who had previously thought of themselves as part of an isolated minority, experienced the euphoric sense of discovering that they are, as the saying goes, what's happening. Adults were made more aware than ever before that the children of the welfare state and the atom bomb do indeed march to the beat of a different drummer, as well as to the tune of an electric guitarist...
...unraveling of the DNA double helix was one of the great events in science, comparable to the splitting of the atom or the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. It also marked the maturation of a bold new science: molecular biology. Under this probing discipline, man could at last explore-and understand-living things at their most fundamental level: that of their atoms and molecules...