Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was, in fact, the reaction the Russians wanted. They wanted to talk about everything except effective inspection, control and punishment. The U.S. figured that if the Russians would not agree to genuine control of the atom (which the U.S. has and Russia has not), then it would be a waste of time to talk about other kinds of weapons...
...this added up to a very discouraging picture of the chances of getting international control of the atom. Reading the stories of the procedural merry-go-round at Lake Success, the public might not realize how discouraging the picture was-and the fact that it had got that way because of Russian reluctance to accept genuine atomic control...
...have never known anything about the construction of bombs. . . . We do not have the industrial capacity to make bombs in great numbers, and no country can think of building a weapon of which it will have only one or two. Could we go to war with a single atom bomb...
Planning. The U.S. still has the biggest single atom program; it has spent some $2,500,000,000 and President Truman recently asked for another $443,000,000 in 1947-48. But last October Russia tripled her annual research budget (including the atom) to $1,200,000,000. Last month Sergei Vavilov, president of the Soviet Academy of Science, said that 100,000 Russians were now engaged in "scientific work." Soviet physicists had separated U-235 by thermal diffusion (a process used at Oak Ridge, Tenn.) at the Dnepropetrovsk power plant in 1942 before the Nazis destroyed...
...other extreme of physics-the infinitesimally small end-there was also baffling news. Last week, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, ex-head of the Los Alamos (atom bomb) Laboratory, postulated a new sub-atomic particle: the neutral meson, which leads an even more feverishly active life than the positive and negative meson which scientists already know about. In its normal habitat within an atomic nucleus, it "lives" only one hundredth of a sextillionth (1/100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th) of a second. The neutral meson's brief life, remarked Professor Oppenheimer, may be the reason no physicist...