Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration came into office. Before that he had been a professor at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, where he devoted himself to a study of 20th century diplomatic history. His latest book, Russia and the West, was published in 1958. Among his other books are Russia, the Atom and the West, and American Diplomacy...
According to Linsley's calculations, the primary ray that caused all the ruckus must have had 100 billion billion electron-volts of energy-three billion times the power of man's biggest atom smashers. If the cosmic-ray invader consisted of only one proton, as Linsley believes, its fierce energy must have made it weigh 100 billion times as much as a normal earthly proton...
Perutz discovered in 1953 that by studying the X-ray diffraction pattern from a series of isomorphous heavy atom compounds, each having a heavy atom (such as mercury) attached to a different site on the protein molecule, the problem of discovering the molecular structure of complex proteins could be solved...
...going to have disagreements," he said, as if trying to calm an unruly classroom full of impatient newsmen. "They go to the heart of the alliance and the purposes of the alliance. They all involve the security of the U.S., and those questions which involve disagreements on the atom are very important questions and there are bound to be differences of opinion. And there should be, because they involve life and death...
...last week the force de frappe consisted of a handful of atom bombs and a delivery system of exactly four Mirage IV jets, extremely fast (Mach 2), high-altitude, two-seat light bombers. The Mirage IV's radius is only 1,000 miles...