Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Nuclear power plants make some people nervous, reminding them of atom bombs. So the Atomic Energy Commission is facing a tough decision: whether to let such plants be built inside big cities. All eleven of the nuclear electricity generators built so far are located outside heavily populated areas, but New York's Consolidated Edison Co. wants to build a million-kilowatt nuclear plant in the heart of New York City, only two miles from Rockefeller Center. If AEC grants this request and others like it that will follow, it will surely arouse protests from nervous neighbors. If it refuses...
...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...
Back in 1951, when the U.S. began to worry about Russian-atom armed bombers, somebody had a notion that the invaders might steer by the crisscrossing waves of U.S. commercial broadcasting stations. Probably Russian navigators were never so helpless as that, but an official system, Conelrad (for Control of Electromagnetic Radiation), was set up to foil them. Under Conelrad regulations, all regular broadcasting would go silent during an attack, while stations going on and off the air on two special frequencies, 640 and 1240 kc., would stand ready to give instructions and comfort to the quaking population...