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...major source of chemical energy for living organisms and differs in only one atom of phosphorous from a building block of the genetic code-carrier...
...There appeared to be two areas in which Russia and the U.S. might build some kind of an agreement in the near future: 1) putting international inspectors into territories of both East and West to watch and warn about preparations for a surprise attack, and 2) setting up "atom-free zones"-Such as Africa, and possibly even the Balkans...
...would think an atom bomb had exploded here. You never saw such excitement in your life as that about my making TIME. Every time I turn around, somebody tells me that they read your story of July 19-the faculty, the students, the beauty operators, the food clerks, and people on the streets whom I never saw before. I am as much of a celebrity here as the Kennedys are in Ireland...
...Atom-free zones in Central and Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean and possibly Africa. These are all variations of the old Rapacki Plan (named after Adam Rapacki, Polish Foreign Minister), which the West rejected in 1957, since it contained inadequate safeguards to prevent cheating...
...while, the fuel in its core (Con Ed plans to use 113 tons of uranium oxide) is contaminated with fiercely radioactive fission products. If this unpleasant stuff got spread around the countryside by any sort of explosion, it would do as much harm as the fallout from an atom bomb. Millions of people live within a few miles of Con Ed's projected installation. To reduce this danger to a minimum, the plant proposed for the Borough of Queens, on New York's East River, will have fantastically elaborate safeguards. The reactor core will be housed...