Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They listened with mild interest. Finally the speaker mentioned the U.S. policy of atomic secrecy. The audience stirred to nervous attention. Then 62-year-old Annie Yates, a spinster charwoman, rose to say: "We want all those atom-bomb places opened for us all to know what's going on in them." The citizens of Darwen broke into applause...
...nominate for TIME Cover Face of the Year, a Woman of 1945, Dr. Lise Meitner, the Austrian Jewish woman scientist who developed the formula that broke open the atom. Many of your readers, no doubt, will be nominating Roosevelt or Truman or Stalin, and each of these is a worthy choice, but Dr. Meitner's contribution, I believe, will far outweigh the contributions that the others have made. For, as TIME has repeatedly pointed out, this is the atomic age, and the bomb will play a tremendous part in deciding whether the world of the future will have peace...
Congress was still "thinking of atomic power in terms of bombs. So, despite all their efforts to think of the atom's kindlier uses, were the men who had unleashed...
Sales & Cartels. When Canada's Government expropriated the Eldorado mine in January 1944 (TIME, Aug. 20), its prime (but secret) purpose was to insure an adequate supply of uranium for U.S., British and Canadian atom-bomb experimenters. Canadians found out last week that there was another reason too: in the operation of Eldorado, before expropriation and just after, the Government had detected something that looked suspect...
...from the site of the Manhattan Project development at Los Alamos, the Harvard Cyclotron is coming back to a new building which will be constructed specifically to house it. Pre-war researchers built the Cyclotron at the Gordon McKay Engineering Laboratories in 1938, The tremendous energies necessary in the atom-smashing experiments gave the scientists early indication of the fantastic powers locked in the nucleus of the atom...