Word: atomics
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...total violated state and federal banking regulations, as well as those of the home bank in Italy. Federal investigators are reportedly trying to ascertain if BNL Atlanta extended a credit to a British-based company accused of trying to procure for Iraq elements of a triggering device for an atom bomb, a transaction uncovered by a joint U.S.-British sting operation last March...
...Iran but also rebellious Iraqi Kurds. Last year he tested the Tammuz-1 ballistic missile, with a range of 1,240 miles. Four weeks ago, he was caught trying to smuggle into Iraq U.S.-made electrical devices for what Western experts are convinced is a project to build an atom bomb. Then, on April 2, Saddam vowed to "let our fire eat up half of Israel if it tries to wage anything against Iraq...
...remarkable demonstration of the precision with which single atoms can now be manipulated, a skill that could conceivably be used someday to build atom-size transistors or to custom-design molecules. Using an instrument called a scanning tunneling microscope and working on a surface chilled to near absolute zero, researchers Donald Eigler and Erhard Schweizer were able to get individual atoms to respond to the magnet-like tug of a fine tungsten needle. But don't expect to see atom-etching booths at your local science fair. It took 22 hours to haul 35 xenon atoms across the bumpy nickel...
...other large accelerators have been built to probe the nature of matter on a scale far smaller than that of the atom. The goal is to answer ancient and fundamental questions: What is the universe made of, and what are the forces that bind its parts together? These questions cannot be answered without an understanding of what happened in the Big Bang, the unimaginably hot and dense fireball that 15 billion years ago gave birth to the universe and all it contains...
Saddam learned his lesson well: Israeli officials say the Iraqis are now working on the components of an atom bomb at half a dozen underground sites around the country. "We are worried, very worried," says an Israeli government minister. "But what is the point in talking about it? If we are going to do something to them, we should naturally keep it secret...