Word: atomically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rightly worried about the proliferation of nuclear weapons abroad, got Congress to pass a law requiring that the U.S. sell nuclear fuel pragmatism to countries complying with the terms of the international nuclear nonproliferation treaty of 1968. The treaty requires nations without nuclear weapons to open all of their atomic reactors to international inspection to make sure they are not manufacturing ingredients for bombs. India has not signed the treaty, though it had previously agreed to permit inspection of the Tarapur reactor. But India has refused to allow outsiders to visit its other reactors, arguing that while it was devoted...
circa 1920: First atom split...
Professor Theodore Richards of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told his colleagues he split the atom. Twenty years later, many of the men responsible for the Manhattan Project left Cambridge for Los Alamos...
While sitting in the ashes and donning my sackcloth, I am contemplating the achievements of mankind. We split the atom, we walked on the moon, we invented every imaginable destructive weapon of war. Now there is a new rumbling in our midst presenting a different challenge: How do we tame an angry mountain...
...Patrolman Mancuso, who has been ordered by his chief to bring in at least one suspicious character. Donning the odd costumes he is forced to wear for the purpose of enticement, Mancuso constantly goes out and gets himself arrested. Much of the comedy in the novel is of the atom-smashing variety; people and props ricochet off each other into unforeseen trajectories. Ignatius' favorite work is Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy...