Word: atomization
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Many will remember him as a patriot; more than a few will remember the death he dealt to thousands of innocents. On Aug. 6, 1945, Air Force pilot Paul Tibbets Jr. climbed into his B-29 aircraft, the Enola Gay--named after his mother--and dropped the first atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Nearly 80,000 people lost their lives that day, but Tibbets never expressed remorse. "I sleep clearly every night," he once said, asserting that his actions--which brought an end to the war--saved lives. Fearful of protesters, he requested that no funeral arrangements...
...Nuclear terrorism is a tremendously important problem that needs urgent attention and this report is one of the best sources that any policymaker or interested citizen can consult to learn about the problem,” said Martin Malin, the executive director for “Managing the Atom...
...Canada as an important national cinema. This country of 33 million has left less of an artistic footprint than, say, Hong Kong (6 million population) in the 80s or Sweden (4 million) in the Ingmar Bergman years. The provinces have produced a few notable directors - David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan from Ontario, Denys Arcand from Quebec, Guy Maddin from Manitoba - but their careers date back to the 60s, 70s or 80s. Other Canadians, like directors Norman Jewison and Paul Haggis and a slew of comedy stars, have packed their bags and emigrated to the dominant movie culture...
...early 1960s, as the first director of the biomedical-research arm of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, physicist John Gofman, who had helped develop the atom bomb, was asked to look into the health effects of ionizing radiation. His conclusion--that the risk from low levels of exposure was 20 times as high as stated by the government--enraged the Atomic Energy Commission, which unsuccessfully tried to stop Gofman and colleague Arthur Tamplin from publishing the data. Suddenly an industry pariah and a reluctant "father" of the antinuclear movement, Gofman went on to found the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility...
...he took his most memorable picture--the iconic image of young J.F.K. Jr. saluting his father's coffin--as a White House photographer, Joe O'Donnell began documenting tragedy nearly 20 years earlier when, as a Marine sergeant, he was assigned to capture on film the effects of the atom bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. For the rest of his life, O'Donnell, who became an activist against nuclear arms, carried with him such images as the classroom of children seated at their desks reduced to cinder, as well as long-term health problems from radiation exposure...