Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's most powerful atom smasher is in neither the U.S. nor in Russia; it is in Switzerland. In the rolling countryside three miles northwest of Geneva, the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) has built a great new proton synchrotron designed to produce 25 billion electron volts. Half buried in a hillside, it is a huge doughnut of magnet steel, 656 ft. in outside diameter. Last week British Physicist John B. Adams, chief of CERN's Proton Synchrotron Division, ordered slight corrections in the magnetic field, watched as the protons sped faster and faster around their circular...
Although he did not name a Presidential favorite, David Riesman '34, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, warned against the contemporary political complacency. "I feel along with many people that the current American assumption that there can be 'politics as usual' in the year of the atom bomb does not make too much sense. We are perhaps too sure that 1960 will come along without a contaminated atmosphere or even a worse explosion and that we can play guessing games without serious risk to life on this planet...
...were often exorbitant. In his lifelong pursuit of facts, he uncovered some strange ones, e.g., a striptease show produced at intervals by the Baltimore Social Security Board. Occasionally he blundered: he urged a reporter to expose a crackpot big-spending scheme called the Manhattan Project six months before the atom bomb was dropped...
...ATOM High Price of Suspension For 13 months President Eisenhower's Administration has imposed a voluntary ban on nuclear testing while negotiating with the Russians at Geneva on how to set up international controls-and the ban has been extended to Dec. 31. In U.S. atomic weapons laboratories and in the Pentagon last week, there were no doubts at all that the U.S. should get on with its testing program as soon as possible. Reason: the nuclear-test moratorium is now damaging the nation's nuclear-deterrent power...
...present the group is expanding the length, or "arc" of the building which houses the apparatus. The increased dimensions will better accomodate the study of beams of particles coming from the atom smasher, commented Livingston...