Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French insistence on the atom bomb is, of course, based partly on considerations of prestige and of grandeur, but perhaps we can discern more mundane military reasoning involved. Once the French have put their name on the label, I surmise that de Gaulle will quietly "Europeanize" the bomb project, and bring in German technicians. The object of these efforts would be to increase the Continent's nuclear power to the point where it could annihilate the U.S.S.R. Then the block would have won its freedom both from fear of Russia, and from dependence on the United States for protection...
This peculiar behavior is explained by the structure of graphite crystals, whose carbon atoms are arranged in sheets one atom thick. When the sheets are stacked up in a crystal, the distance between the atoms in adjoining layers is more than twice as great (3.35 angstroms*) as the distance between the atoms in the individual sheets (1.42 angstroms). In ordinary commercial graphite, microscopic crystals are jumbled almost at random, but in Pyrographite they are mostly aligned with their sheets parallel (see diagram). This builds up a layered structure that resists the motion of heat across the layers but permits easy...
...Nature," says Buckminster Fuller, "always builds the most economic structures." With his geodesic dome now in wide use (e.g., at the U.S. exhibition in Moscow last summer), Bucky Fuller has delved into the geometry that underlies nature's structures from the atom to the planetary system, to produce two more pioneering ideas. Last week they were on view in the floodlighted garden of Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
When the rocket-launched atom bombs of Project Argus were exploded last year 300 miles above the South Atlantic (TIME, March 30), most of the ionized particles the explosions created were picked up by the earth's magnetic field and lofted in arching curves around the earth in a man-made imitation of the Van Allen radiation belts. This effect was expected and was duly observed by U.S. scientists. But a team of the Army's Fort Monmouth men, led by Dr. Hans A. Bomke, was quietly watching for subtler effects. To pick up the faint traces they...
...ATOM POWER PLANT for Italy will be partially financed by $34 million Export-Import Bank credit. New facility, largest private industry nuclear plant in Europe (165,000 kw.), will be built by 1964 to serve northern Italy, at total cost of $64 million, using Westinghouse Electric Corp. nuclear equipment...