Word: atomically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chilean's latest venture has alarmed his country's neighbors. He admits that he is experimenting with fuel-air explosive bombs, which release and then detonate a vapor cloud of fuel. The F.A.E. has been called the "poor man's atom bomb" because of the powerful explosion it generates. After it became known that Cardoen had helped arrange an F.A.E. test in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile three months ago, protesters in Bolivia, Peru and Argentina charged that Chile's production of such a terrifying weapon could set off a regional arms race...
...their successes so far, leaders of the Physicians' Health Study are still coming up short on conclusive data about the mysterious vegetable extract beta carotene, composed of a backbone of carbon atoms flanked by two 6-atom carbon "rings...
PAKISTAN. Although the Bush Administration is not actually saying so, it has concluded that Pakistan has the atom bomb.* Washington's silence is eloquent. In order to continue supplying military and economic aid, Bush must certify to Congress that Pakistan does not possess nuclear weapons. Last year Bush did so; this year he did not. Military assistance and all new aid -- a potential $564 million for this fiscal year -- has been...
BRAZIL. Like Pakistan, Brazil solemnly denied for years that it had an atom bomb program. The country's new civilian President, Fernando Collor de Mello, has admitted publicly that such a military effort was under way, and has ordered it closed down. He shoveled a symbolic two scoops of lime into a 1,050-ft. test-site shaft last month and ordered the site closed...
...technology, the U.S. led most major developments, from the jet plane to the computer. It pioneered the move from the industrial to the information society. It did a lion's share of theoretical work in the sciences. For better or worse, it built -- and used -- the atom bomb, forever changing the calculus of war and peace. It took man to the moon. It played the major role in proving capitalism, widely seen as doomed in the century's first half, to be a vital and successful system. Above all, it decisively helped defeat the two great totalitarian enemies of freedom...