Word: atomically
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What the Israelis took less than three minutes to destroy had been developing since the mid-'70s, when Saddam Hussein, Iraq's dictatorial President, made a nuclear shopping trip to Paris. The Israeli Defense Ministry soon began to predict that the Iraqis would be capable of producing atom bombs within four to six years. In September 1975, a Lebanese newspaper article quoted Hussein as saying that the nuclear program was "the first Arab attempt toward nuclear arming, although the official declared purpose of construction of the reactor is not nuclear weapons." A similar statement was made in 1977 by Naim...
...happened to world welfare in the same way that we made a major impact on the hijacking situation at Entebbe. Today nobody gives in to hijacking blackmail. When the criticism has subsided, people will realize that you can't allow every small country, particularly like Iraq, to own the atom bomb." Said Miriam Hefetz, 29, a government secretary: "We're doing the dirty work for the rest of the world. We have nothing to be ashamed of. Somebody had to stop Iraq...
...only route to national safety, security, and welfare is the route of disarmament." Kistiakowsky, who helped build the atom bombs exploded over Japan at the end of World War II, said...
Gene splicing is the most powerful and awesome skill acquired by man since the splitting of the atom. It is an unparalleled exploratory tool for examining, and in the process changing, the complicated machinery of heredity. If a gene of unknown function is inserted into bacteria, it can act as a probe that lets scientists see precisely what it does. By such techniques, researchers will finally speed up the formidable task of identifying, locating and analyzing every one of the more than 100,000 genes found in a human cell...
...that of all diabetics on insulin?some 1.8 million people in the U.S. alone?5% suffer allergic reactions to the animal hormone because it differs ever so slightly from the human variety. It may also cause some of the circulatory problems associated with diabetes. By contrast, virtually every atom of the bacterial product is identical to insulin made in the body, and so should produce few reactions...