Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andrew Kalitinsky of Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. (which is working under the Atomic Energy Commission) recently explained the problem at a Manhattan meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers. In outline, the job looks simple. A "nuclear reactor" (essentially a controlled, slow-exploding atom bomb) gives off most of its energy as heat. One way to do the trick is to put a reactor in place of the combustion chambers of a turbojet engine (see chart). A compressor forces air into the forward end of the engine. Heated and expanded by the nuclear reactor, the air shoots toward the rear...
...Communists, fellow travelers and troubled innocents-clumped determinedly two blocks east to the huge Roxy Theater. They lugged picket signs and clutched bundles of leaflets, which had been prepared in advance. They were out to boo the opening of The Iron Curtain, the anti-Soviet propaganda story* of Russian atom spies in Canada. (TIME...
...atom bomb war against Russia," figured James Aloysius Farley, "would result in the killing of 97 innocent people out of every 100. Since only 3% of the Russians are Communists...
...killed world atom control? One after another, the delegates of seven nations-France, the U.S., Britain, Canada, Belgium, China, Colombia-pointed at Soviet Russia. Andrei Gromyko objected, claimed that all avenues to agreement had not been explored. This attitude was necessary for the sake of Moscow's propaganda claims that the West, not Russia, had sabotaged international agreement...
...world's biggest cyclotron will be built on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Last week the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Chairman David E. Lilienthal, seconded happily by U. of C.'s Ernest O. Lawrence, announced that the Government will finance a vast machine (no feet in diameter) to dwarf all present atom-smashers. It will weigh more than 10,000 tons, cost $9 million...