Word: atomically
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...Court office that many of his aides never knew about and to unabashedly try to persuade them. He, for instance, consulted with physicist Niels Bohr on the controversial Manhattan Project, and sought to persuade Roosevelt and Secretary of War Henry I. Stimson to disclose America's plans for the atom bomb to the Soviet Union. Only his overriding concern with maintaining the judicial propriety and his skill at perpetuating the "myth of judicial seclusion" kept Frankfurter's lobbying publicly unknown for so long. That--and his tacit ability to harm the careers of those who threatened to buck his will...
With the inevitability of fallout from an atom bomb, the ever growing national concern about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear war landed on Washington last week. There was a special debate in the House on arms control. The Senate held heated hearings on the Administration's strategic policy that raised sharp questions about the need for new weapons systems. Urged by anxious aides to get out front on a populist issue that threatens to overwhelm his plans for a massive military buildup, President Reagan held his first evening press conference-broadcast on television...
...served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960; in San Antonio. A World War II commander of U.S. air campaigns in Europe and the South Pacific, Twining was an unfaltering proponent of airpower and military might. B-29s under his command dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
Like the complex interactions within the atom, the volatile human forces at work on the planet earth may be able to maintain their dynamic equilibrium indefinitely. That will unquestionably require ever increasing wisdom and skillful management, as well as luck. Many more Americans are now beginning to think seriously about what used to be called the unthinkable. Insofar as this new wave of concern and activism about the single biggest threat facing mankind does justice to the complexity of the problem, and steers clear of simple-minded pseudo solutions, it may foster some of the prerequisites for survival. In which...
...experts and policymakers who helped design and refine the contingency plans?about whether those plans would work if put to the test of reality. Many fear that the detonation of even one nuclear weapon in a conflict would be like firing a particle into the nucleus of an atom; nuclear war would mimic nuclear fission. The result would be a chain reaction of chaos and cataclysm, warheads flying back and forth with increasing recklessness and ultimately random, total destruction...