Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raised in Japan and speaks the language without a trace of an accent. He is therefore drafted by Washington to rescue an American scientist (Marc Cramer) from a Jap prison camp. The captive scientist appears to be the only man who knows the whole formula for completing the atom bomb. The Major forthwith undergoes some heavy-handed plastic surgery to give him buck teeth, slant eyes and a puffy face which make him look less like a Jap than like a man with a chronic hangover. In the tick of a time fuse he is being smuggled into Japan...
...atomic bomb, said Brandt, "has proved there is no such thing as the absent-minded professor. When the scholar decided to turn over to the Government his knowledge of the atom, he at once assumed responsibility for the kind of Government which would use the atomic bomb. And since the Government is the people, he destroyed once and for all his right to ignore the people...
...These tiny pills of theory were carefully concealed in a pudding of puns, skits and music. Human Adventure, setting out to be both entertaining and educational about Einstein, was only partly instructive, not wholly entertaining. Fadiman tried to give his hearers a glimmer of the theory's importance : atomic scientists had used it, he said, in calculating the amount of energy in an atom. Concluded Fadiman: "Before Einstein, there was one essential error in the logic of physics - it considered...
...greasewood, yucca and bunch grass selected as site for the test explosion is known in Manhattan Project doubletalk as "Trinity." Most of the land once belonged to a rancher named MacDonald, whose wrecked ranch house was the first human habitation to be blasted by the terrible force of exploding atoms. Ten thousand yards from the test site are the two low, heavy-timbered buildings, banked to the roof with earth, which housed the bomb-exploding generator and observation instruments (known in atom-scientist code as "Beta" and "Ten Thousand"). Nearby stand two white-painted Sherman tanks used to examine...
Aftereffects? Major General Leslie R. Groves and Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, military and scientific parents of the atom bomb, parried all questions about the bomb itself. But about its aftereffects they were anxious to talk. Data on Hiroshima and Nagasaki will not be complete until scientists now on the spot have finished their tests. But all three atomic explosions, said General Groves, were "comparable" in power. Important difference was that New Mexico's test bomb went off only 100 ft. above ground, those in Japan "much higher." Hence the effects of their blast, heat and radiation were spread much...