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...continues to this day. Says Celia Hunter, a lodge keeper who came to the territory 42 years ago: "Alaskans have always looked for the big bang that would solve all their problems." Some development schemes were downright absurd. In the late 1950s, Hunter helped quash a proposal to use atom bombs to blast an artificial harbor out of the northern coast. "The argument even then was jobs, jobs, jobs," she says...
Nuclear fusion, the process that fires the sun, usually occurs when two atoms are squeezed together at very high temperatures to make one new atom. For example, two atoms of deuterium -- an isotope of hydrogen -- can be fused to form a helium atom and a neutron, releasing a sizable burst of energy. But before that can occur, deuterium nuclei generally need to be compressed with sufficient force to overcome their mutually repellent electrical charges. In H-bombs, that force is supplied by the detonation of an A-bomb. Conventional fusion techniques require giant magnets, powerful laser beams and particle accelerators...
...Truman years, when a Democratic Administration enlisted the support of a pre-World War II isolationist Republican, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, in the postwar reconstruction of Europe. But Vandenberg later joined in highly partisan attacks on the Democrats for "losing" China and "letting" the Soviet Union acquire the atom bomb...
...deadly MX missile, which carries ten nuclear warheads, is stationed in hardened concrete silos designed to withstand a near-miss by an atom bomb. But at least one of the 50 MX's deployed by the Air Force over the past three years has trouble standing up. The Pentagon confirmed last week that the warheads from five MX's at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming were removed after one of the rockets slipped from its moorings and fell as much as a foot inside its underground silo last August. An investigation determined that the missile's fall...
...slower would essentially go backward in time. The mode of travel, however, could be nothing like the mechanical time machine, complete with saddle, envisioned by H.G. Wells. It is hard to conceive how a human being could move through a wormhole, since it would theoretically be narrower than an atom, and it would tend to vanish the instant it formed...