Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago. In November 1974 Ting, who had been working at New York's Brookhaven National Laboratory, visited Richter at Stanford and told him he had just discovered a new member of the "subatomic zoo," the ever growing list of tiny particles identified in experiments with giant atom-smashing machines. Ting was startled to get instant confirmation of his finding; Richter had independently discovered the same particle in his own laboratory...
Given some commonplace materials, a simple lab and a certain amount of fissionable uranium or plutonium, almost any competent physicist can build an atom bomb nowadays. This unfortunate fact of technological life has stirred dire warnings that sophisticated terrorist groups might build such bombs and use them to blackmail the world -a kind of ultimate crime. While the prospect causes a great deal of official worry, it also provides almost any competent thriller writer with a readymade plot that has everything: timeliness, tremendous stakes and, above all, the appalling specter of a mushroom cloud billowing over a peaceful land...
Should the U.S. freely sell peaceful nuclear technology abroad? The question is so important that it is being more and more debated at the highest levels of the Federal Government. On the one hand, the nation's overseas sales of atomic power plants, equipment and services swell U.S. export earnings by a cool $1.5 billion a year. On the other, the proliferation of nuclear reactors can also lead to the spread of nuclear weapons-meaning atom bombs...
...Daisy Atoms. After one break, trainees discover beneath their chairs a daisy, a cherry tomato and a strawberry, and do an exercise to put themselves inside each object. "You're part of every atom in the world and every atom is part of you." We are all gods who create our own worlds. The central est message appears around 6 p.m. on the last day: What you do has no effect on anything else. You are a machine, and if you accept that fact you will have a rich life, because you will know that it doesn...
...boards of both Lindsell's magazine and Hubbard's seminary, calls the book "one of the most important of our generation." But other Evangelicals are less enthusiastic. Says Theologian Carl F.H. Henry, Lindsell's predecessor as editor of Christianity Today: "Lindsell is relying on theological atom bombing. As many Evangelical friends as foes end up as casualties...