Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kremlin jitters may have planted a Paris report that Russia had "infra-cosmic lays," which could explode any atom bomb from 12 miles. The report added that "safety belts," studded with "infra-cosmic ray" generators, are to be scattered from 60 to 100 miles around strategic cities and industries...
...atom was not Clement Attlee's sole concern. He also wanted to get on better terms with Harry Truman and convince the capitalist U.S. that socialist Britain could be a good and useful friend -especially if Communist Russia turned out to be no friend at all. In both endeavors, he made some progress...
...declared intent to internationalize the atom "and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction" did not end atomic nationalism. It strongly survived among President Truman's military advisers, who resumed their support of the highly nationalistic May-Johnson control bill. The British did not miss the point...
Lately, he has been working on the "binding force," the powerful, short-range attraction which holds the nucleus of an atom together. Except for the binding force, science's innermost mystery, the entire earth would presumably explode...
...prize for chemistry went to pioneer atom-splitter Professor Otto Hahn, 66, lately of Berlin. Hahn came to the U.S. in 1933 to lecture for one year at Cornell. He is believed to be in the U.S. at the present time, under different circumstances. Where he is now, U.S. scientists cannot say and Government authorities will not say. If he is one of the German scientists imported to the U.S. as "human reparations," it will be the first time a Nobel prize has been awarded to a virtual prisoner of war. When Professor Hahn did his first atom-splitting...