Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explosion of the first A-bombs over Japan led to the founding of the Bulletin in 1945. Many scientists, appalled at the destruction, felt that they needed a magazine to help educate the world about the atom bomb. They raised enough money to print 500 copies of a semimonthly newsletter. Rabinowitch, a 51-year-old, Russian-born physical chemist who worked on the Chicago bomb project and now teaches at the University of Illinois, had no trouble finding writers. He has seven Nobel Prizewinners on his editorial board. Scientists like Albert Einstein, Harold C. Urey, Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard...
...Green Light. The Army has dreamed of drafting the atom into the artillery ever since it heard about Hiroshima. But the dream was wild and impractical until the atomic scientists discovered how to bring off small, controlled, atomic explosions. Then a young Army ordnance expert who is also a nuclear physicist, Colonel Angelo R. del Campo, drew up some sketches and took them to the AEC laboratories at Los Alamos. Working in high secrecy, West Pointer del Campo spent months juggling the requirements of artillery against the requirements of an atomic charge. (Sample: the mechanical parts of an atomic bomb...
...dynamite charge to blow up the office, and another child-at the end of a leash-growling savagely at a terrified dog. Asks the startled clerk: "And you say you have experience with riots, first aid, salvage and repair, a knowledge of weapons and nothing but contempt for the atom bomb...
...head near Brookhaven's high-flux pile. While the doctors watched from a platform, the pile operator threw the controls and a stream of neutrons from the pile shot through her skull, aimed at the tumor site. For 17 minutes the boron in the tumor was turned, atom by atom, into a source of instantaneous alpha radiation...
...physically dangerous when the country was thrust, by its own power and success, into the leading position in world politics. Americans had always felt guilty about using power (except, of course, in an economic way); suddenly they found themselves forced to rely on an ultimate form of power, the atom bomb, to preserve peace. Americans had thought of themselves as the "tutors of mankind in its pilgrimage to perfection," innocent of ulterior ambition or guile. Now they found themselves "condemned in a court of public opinion" by have-not nations, who regarded the virtuous prosperity...