Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week brought a gleam in the darkness, a first soft glow in the terrifying gloom which seven months before, after the blinding flash over Hiroshima, had engulfed the world. Perhaps there was a workable and reasonable way of saving the world from the atom...
Those who had begun to fear that no workable plan could be found for international control of the atom had still to be shown that this was really such a plan. But the report raised hopes that the 20th Century's most impelling quest was not necessarily doomed to failure...
...Atomic physicists generally do not see a pos sibility of producing an atomic e-:-)'onion from the light elements (hydrogen, heHum. etc.) - in which lies the danger of some atom!c experiment accidentally blowing up the whole e?rth. Says...
...Ridge (Tenn.) High School, which grew up by the light of the atom bomb, had a visit from atomic chemist Charles Coryell one day last fall. He told the students: "Unless the atom bomb is controlled for peace, one out of three persons in this auditorium will probably die of the effects of atomic energy." The Oak Ridge school kids, soberly shocked, organized a Youth Council on the Atomic Crisis (which they promptly nicknamed...
With the Massots and with his parents, Jean begins to observe the Giono world. It is a world of good & evil, of working men and working women "all pressed, atom against atom, as in an enormous pomegranate." He learns about the baker's wife who ran off with a man. He sees a wheelwright trying to crucify...