Word: atomics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...molecular biology's leap into prominence has been amply documented. In 1953, at Britain's venerable Cambridge University, two brash young scientists named James Watson and Francis Crick made a discovery comparable to the fissioning of the atom or Darwin's publication of Origin of Species. In a matter of months, after cribbing clues from associates and competitors, Watson, then 25, and Crick, 36, cracked what they grandiosely called "the secret of life": they unraveled the long, spiraling architecture of the DNA molecule, a feat that suggested how heredity truly worked...
...energy crisis could ultimately destroy our economy and bring down the world economy along with it. Such a collapse would precipitate world conflict and probably atomic war. We cannot escape the danger of the atom. But I would rather risk a mishap once every 20 to 30 years than face one nuclear holocaust. Philip L. Hall Yoakum, Texas...
...attempts to control public information only obscure the real point: because we simply cannot control the knowledge of how to make a nuclear bomb, atomic or hydrogen--we must control the fissionable materials needed to do so. If we don't want to live in "a nuclear armed crowd" (as one commentator has put it), we will have to stop blithely spreading uranium and plutonium around the globe under the guise of the "peaceful atom...
...necessary skill and authority to the scene of the disaster. Had the right men been there at the right time, three days before they finally did show up, they might have limited the damage and certainly would have reduced the meltdown risk. Astonishingly, in the age of the atom and travel to the moon, the NRC engineers who first went to Three Mile Island had trouble keeping in communication with their home office. Says one NRC official in Washington: "We had a hell of a time trying to find out what was going on. The whole commercial phone system...
...hinder attempts to shut down a balking reactor can no longer contend that the chances of serious accident are so tiny as to be totally discounted. The radiation released was well below the Government's standards for safety, but cancer rates among people exposed to fallout from the atomic-bomb tests of the 1950s and shipyard workers who repair atom-powered vessels raise troubling questions about the long-run effects of supposedly "safe" radiation...