Word: atomically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Reagan Administration attempts to mend America's nuclear-power industry, such extensive repairs are not as yet necessary in other countries. From South Korea (one reactor) to the Soviet Union (23 reactors), the world is still looking more or less confidently to the atom for its electric power. Outside the U.S., 21 countries now have a total of 182 atomic-powered generating plants in operation, and another 138 plants are under construction...
When C.P. Snow was an eight-year-old in the drab Midlands city of Leicester, he read about the atom in a children's encyclopedia. An atom, the credulous lad was told, resembles the ulterior of a cathedral, in which tennis balls-the electrons-bounce about violently. This fanciful account gave the factory clerk's son "the first sharp mental excitement I ever had." He never quite got over...
...Board under Franklin Roosevelt, served as an assistant to Truman at the White House until 1953 and remained a close friend and confidant until the former President's death in 1972, helping with his memoirs. Noyes had a hand in such historic decisions as the building of the atom bomb, the firing of General Douglas MacArthur, the establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency and the launching of the Marshall Plan...
...effect its new nuclear-policy guidelines. As Senator Glenn has noted, "Based on this policy, the Administration could be a tough opponent of proliferation, and it could be a more lenient one." The challenge for the White House will be to use its rules to aid mankind with the atom while limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons, which, warn scientists and politicians alike, will lead to disaster...
...killer dogs and occasionally, one another. A semblance of central government exists in the person of a "Pry Mincer" and "Wes Mincer," two itinerants who travel from village to village giving repeated performances of the same puppet show. Its subject is a simplified myth of the splitting of the atom...