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...Powers of Ten, one such idea film that Eames presented in 1968 to a meeting of America's top physicists, sketches a linear zoom to the farthest known point in the galaxies down to the nucleus of a carbon atom. What makes the film almost surreal at times is the starting point-the wrist of a man lying on Miami Beach-and the narrator, a serious female voice. Yet, whether physicist or child, one gets a feeling for the dimensions of time and space...
...Anything else," he said, "is destructive of education, suppressive of freedom, and just downright cruelty." Even the atom bomb is of "minor destructive force" in comparison with the growing national problem of "forced integration...
Among the fascinating new problems of medical research is how to use radioisotopes-forms of normally stable elements made radioactive in atom smashers. Radioisotopes have already become helpful in irradiating and arresting cancer. Lately, researchers have achieved even more significant results in cancer diagnosis. Because radioisotopes tend to concentrate in certain organs or diseased tissues, physicians have been able to detect tumors as much as six months before they appear on conventional X rays. Result: an important head start in the treatment of those that are malignant...
Most important, the new atomic generation might have grown up confident that man was the master rather than the victim of nuclear discoveries, seeing the power of the atom more as opportunity than threat-and making that opportunity flower. Quite probably Japan, for instance, freed of its traumatic terror of atomic energy, would have been among the pioneers in peaceful nuclear research. Instead, an entire generation of children, all around the globe, has reached adulthood with a constant sense of lurking terror that has all too often surfaced in nightmares, or more maturely, in peace demonstrations...
Part of the problem lies in the fact that a bet made by the utilities in the mid-1960s did not quite pay off. At that time, nuclear energy seemed cheap, easily produced and pollution-free. Starting in 1963, utility after utility committed itself to the peaceful atom until in 1967 almost half of all new generating power ordered was nuclear...