Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meet on ground that seven years ago was dedicated to the "World of Tomorrow." Here through all the skepticism, the haggling and the hot tempers, is another dedication to the future. Here, in once-swampy Flushing meadow is the machinery that may be the only effective antidote to the atom bomb, to germ warfare, to rocket missiles. Here, for all the uncertainly, intolerance, and misunderstanding, lies the last hope...
...Work in atom plants...
...translation of Father Divine's latest "office talk." Reader Alfred Riesen, Father's governor in Switzerland, kept asking: "Aren't you glad?" Many angels wept for joy. "We thank thee, Father," they sang. "Oh, how wonderful is our Father Divine. . . . We belong to him with every atom of our body and soul...
...General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower disagreed. Said he: the atom bomb is the most destructive weapon in the history of warfare...
Niels Bohr, too, was unsure. Bohr's model of the atom (nucleus and orbit electrons) won him a Nobel Prize in 1922. He escaped from Nazi-ruled Copenhagen in 1943, and brought his precious knowledge to U.S. atom-bomb builders, with whom he worked in thin incognito as "Mr. Nicholas Baker...