Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MOSCOW--Soviet newspapers charged today that the Bikini atom bomb experiment had been an aggressive act and the United States was trying to subjugate Latin American countries with its Inter-American defense plan and an upsurge in economic penetration...
ABOARD U.S.S. MT. MCKINLEY IN BIKINI LAGOON, TUESDAY--The atom bomb test explosion sank or damaged half of the 73-ship target fleet in Bikini Lagoon but failed to kill some of the goats left aboard the battleship Pennsylvania and fish still were swimming pla- cidly today in radioactive waters...
...after the German Panzers had driven through Poland, and the citizens of Hiroshima were still going quietly about their daily tasks, the little man who hates to write letters wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt. In it he stated his conviction that a controlled chain reaction of atomic fission (and hence the atom bomb) was now feasible, that the German Government was working on an atomic bomb, that the U.S. must begin research on the bomb at once or civilization would perish. Einstein enclosed a report by his friend, Dr. Leo Szilard, describing in more technical language...
...atom bomb blasted the last popular skepticism about Einstein's genius it also blasted man's complacent pride in the power of unaided intellect. At the very moment that it was finally mastered, matter was most elusive and most menacing...
...They were saying that Berthelot had predicted that a hundred years from now, thanks to physical and chemical science, men would know of what the atom is constituted. ... To all this we raised no objection, but we have the feeling that when this time comes in science, God with His white beard will come down to earth, swinging a bunch of keys, and will say to humanity, the way they say at 5 o'clock at the Salon, 'Closing time, gentlemen...