Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discerning Canadian, that the Russian search for scientific data in the Dominion was neither surprising nor reprehensible ; the best nations do it. To official Canada, the whole affair was purely domestic: some civil servants obviously had acted, if not treasonously, at least unpatriotically in giving away - or perhaps selling - atom-bomb data and other information. Unperturbed by international hubbub (and inexperienced in it) Canada concentrated on tidying up her own house, and ignored Moscow's roar for the time being (see INTERNATIONAL...
...atom bomb ended the war and changed the world. What did the monster do to the men who had fathered...
...Politicians. Most articulate of the new politicians was Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, ex-chief of the great Los Alamos Laboratory, now in Washington as atom-adviser to the State Department. He spends most of his time conferring with Government agencies. Betweentimes, he spreads his earnest, unminced views. Says he: "If Los Alamos could become a laboratory for peace, in which all nations would participate, from which all men could benefit, we would all be working there...
...atom bomb rocketed to the moon ought to blast a magnificent crater there. Some of the fragments would almost certainly escape from the moon's weak gravitation and shower down on earth, as rather sluggish meteors. Scientists, analyzing them, could then prove beyond all doubt that they were not green cheese...
...stunt might work. Even pre-atom explosives can toss fragments fast enough (1½ miles a second) to free them from the moon's puny pull. Some scientists believe that meteors continually knock chips from the moon's jagged mountains; the chips then head for the center of the earth and fall near the equator as fused, glassy blobs called "tektites...