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...witnessed such a week of more or less simultaneous shocks since early November 1956, when a British-French-Israeli force was invading Egypt and the Soviets were crushing the Hungarian revolt, or since mid-October 1964, when the Soviet Central Committee deposed Nikita Khrushchev, the Chinese exploded their first atom bomb and Britain elected a Labor government in a remarkable upset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECIAL SECTION: ONCE AGAIN, AN AGONIZING REAPPRAISAL | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...PLUTONIUM CONNECTION (PBS NOVA Series, March 9, 7:30 p.m. E.D.T.). It is no secret that ounces of plutonium-a byproduct of nuclear power reactors-could be used to produce a homemade atom bomb. To demonstrate that possibility NOVA commissioned a 20-year-old undergraduate chemistry student to try to design an A-bomb in five weeks, working alone and using only published information available to the general public. The result: a blueprint for a plutonium bomb with an estimated destructive capability of 100 to 1,000 tons of TNT. The student (portrayed by Actor John Holecek) describes the ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoints: Love and the Bomb | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

Repulsive Charges. To meet that deadline, U.S. scientists, starting with a technique devised in the Soviet Union, will have to develop an almost entirely new technology. Unlike nuclear fission -the splitting of a heavy atom into two lighter ones-fusion occurs when two light atoms collide and merge into a heavier one. The reaction releases considerably more energy than fission. Starting the chain reaction that causes fission (Abomb) explosions and powers today's nuclear reactors is relatively easy; basically, all that is required is the bringing together of enough fissionable uranium or plutonium in the right shape. The neutrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Doughnut for Power | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

...Cimarron River plutonium plant about 30 miles north of Oklahoma City. The facility makes plutonium pellet fuel rods for the breeder reactor, a second-generation nuclear power plant now being developed. Silkwood was one of the most active members of local 5-283 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. She was deeply concerned about how plutonium was handled. And with good reason. Inhalation or swallowing of a few specks of the radioactive element can result in cancer. Exposure to slightly greater quantities can cause radiation sickness and death. Furthermore, an amount of plutonium about the size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Silkwood Mystery | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

Bronowski, who was born in Poland, went to England as a child and received his doctorate in mathematics at Cambridge. He turned to his self-appointed task of blending science and human values after working on a statistical study of the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the atom bomb. While continuing his scientific research, most recently at the Salk Institute in San Diego, he turned out a wide variety of books including The Western Intellectual Tradition and two volumes on William Blake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoints | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

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