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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's large industrial applications," Riordan said, ranging from moving railroad boxcars around more easily to exploiting the power of electromagnetism inside an atom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Magnet Lab Puts Florida State U. on Map | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...skyline thrusts so aggressively toward the heavens, pulling down the clouds like a monarch shrugging into a cloak. No other city's history so embodies the idea of innovation and achievement in such a dazzling range of human endeavors. "There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride and exultancy," novelist Thomas Wolfe rhapsodized in 1935. "It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Decline Of New York | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...Pentagon has prepared a list of 70 targets it will hit in Iraq, ranging from air bases, missile installations, refineries, pipelines and pumping stations to military barracks and weapons parks. High on the list are at least four known nuclear facilities, where Saddam is pushing work on an atom bomb, and several chemical-weapons plants, where he produces some 1,000 tons of poisons each year. Such freedom of action would not have been open to the U.S. even a few years ago, when the Soviet Union would have warned that escalation could lead to a nuclear confrontation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Planes Against Brawn | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...20th century,and during his tenure, he did much to dispel theBrahmin tone of the Lowell administration. Heencouraged admissions officers to venture beyondNew England and recruit promising students fromaround the country. On the faculty, Conantwelcomed not just gentleman humanists, but alsothe scientists and mathematicians who pioneeredthe development of the atom bomb...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Choosing A Person, Choosing A Mission | 7/10/1990 | See Source »

Certain things you can't touch. The atom bomb -- you can't play with the atom bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Hope: Thanks for The Memory | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

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