Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the testimony of scientists that the strength of Kenneth McKellar is insignificant compared to that of the atom bomb, the Senator from Tennessee has lately been experiencing delusions of grandeur, and is prepared to display his vocal brawn in an attempt to twist fissionable uranium into a political crowbar. Contesting the appointment of David E. Lilienthal as Chairman of the new Atomic Energy Commission, McKellar is reviving an old political battle as significant to the problem of peacetime atomicenergy development as an Ozark blood-fend...
...bless the United Nations Assembly meeting, where that line first appeared. On the Assembly's second day, small crowds gathered in the sun outside the Assembly Building. A woman kept talking wistfully of One World. Said a fat wise-guy with drowsily half-closed eyes: "Lady, with the atom bomb, the only world is the next world...
...Lake Success last week a Russian scientist created a minor sensation in a very major matter when it appeared that he was moving his country approximately half an inch toward international control of the atom. The sensation promptly collapsed...
Those conflicts that have plagued the UN to date, disputes over territorial and economic expansion, atom bombs and free elections are, reduced to their simplest forms, offshoots of the mutual fear of two groups of nations, and are not the result of one hard-to-define ideology's incompatibility with another equally vague concept. Nations have feared other nations in the past, and our present uneasiness over Russian armies, or Russian apprehension of our plans and bombs fit into this historical pattern...
...front of a blackboard white with diagrams and equations, Nils Bohr, the inventor of the atom as it is conceived by theoretical physicists everywhere, brought an overflowing crowd in Mallin-krodt's Large Lecture Room up to date on. "The Present State of the Theory of Elemental Particles" yesterday...