Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such a way that the collision produced one ordinary neutron and one antineutron. These two particles differ only in their magnetic properties. Neither has any electric charge, and therefore they left no bubble trails. The neutron shot out of the picture undetected, but the antineutron hit a carbon atom in the propane and committed double suicide with one of its protons or neutrons. The atom disintegrated, leaving a star of bubble trails made by pi mesons. Anti-neutrons have been detected electronically, but this was the first time that one of them has shown up in a bubble picture where...
...plant was damaged by fire, Thiokol expects a 50% gain for all of calendar 1958. Reason: solid fuels are far simpler and safer to handle than liquid fuels that require a maze of tanks, valves and pumps, and they show the greatest promise for powering missiles until the atom-powered engine comes along...
...FIRST ATOM-SHIP CREW, to operate N.S. (for Nuclear Ship) Savannah, will start training this September...
...Keep it up-we're winning," cried the Laborite weekly Tribune. "Now Germans join great campaign!" Last week 40 prominent West German politicians, trade unionists, professors, authors and theologians issued a proclamation demanding that the government keep out of any atomic armament race and "support all efforts for an atom-free zone in Europe." Next week the committee called "Fight Against Atomic Death," composed of Socialists and Evangelical churchmen, will make its public debut with a mass rally in Frankfurt. As in Britain, the Florence bomb proved a windfall to the cause, and Hamburg's Bild-Zeitung nervously...
Author Kennan's own thinking about Russia has not advanced as far as might be expected beyond Wilson's. This is demonstrated in Kennan's BBC lectures about the need for "disengagement" (TIME, Dec. 23), now published in book form as Russia, the Atom and the West...