Word: atomically
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TIME WAS when the peaceful atom was hot news--the weeklies all ran cover stories on the magical power source that would be too cheap to meter. And week after week in the 1950s, as the first plants were built and tested, there were diagrams and articles to teach an ignorant but machine-obsessed audience how protons and such could tumble around and produce enough current to run every Osterizer across America until all the world's avocados had been turned into guacamole thrice over, all the clothes washed and dried faster than they could be soiled, all the cheese...
While the U.S. remains traumatized by the Three Mile Island incident, other industrialized nations are moving rapidly in the field of nuclear power. The most aggressive program now belongs to France, which plans to draw 75% of its electricity from the atom by 1990. In 1983 France will complete work on its massive 1,200-megawatt Super Phenix, the country's second fast-breeder reactor. France also leads in developing types of nuclear-waste disposal technology...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 are limited nuclear war. It is limited because the United States at the time has only a few atom bombs. Also, it has a monopoly. Neither condition any longer persists. Americans need to reread John Hersey's Hiroshima. Anyone who calls for limited nuclear war is a madman. He must be seized and placed under heavy guard in a ward for the criminally insane. Henry Ratliff
...electron correlation," or the interaction between the motions of electrons; and his 1932 book, The Theory of Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities, remains a classic in the field. His research, for which he was a co-recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physics, helped explain how a foreign atom invades the symmetrical structure of a crystal, and was basic to the development of modern computer memory systems...
...valley named by the conquistadors Jornada del Muerto (Dead Man's Walk). It is remote and entirely unpopulated, the perfect testing ground for the plutonium monster that the "longhairs" were concocting at Los Alamos in 1944. That winter Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atom bomb, was pressed to give the site a code name. The erudite scientist glanced down at some lines of John Donne's poetry in a volume that he had been reading: "Batter my heart, three-person'd God." "Trinity," he said over the phone, "we'll call it Trinity...