Word: atomize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the surprise bombing of a major target was the only way to use the Bomb: it asked its scientific panel to consider other alternatives. The panel ultimately endorsed the committee's decision, but others did not. From the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago, the cover name for the atomic research center there, came the outspoken Franck Report, formulated by Physicists James Franck and Leo Szilard and Chemist Eugene Rabinowitch. Dropping the atom bomb on Japan, the report suggested, might unleash a nuclear arms race and a period of international distrust that would far outweigh any temporary advantage...
Most important, the new atomic generation might have grown up confident that man was the master rather than the victim of nuclear discoveries, seeing the power of the atom more as opportunity than threat-and making that opportunity flower. Quite probably Japan, for instance, freed of its traumatic terror of atomic energy, would have been among the pioneers in peaceful nuclear research. Instead, an entire generation of children, all around the globe, has reached adulthood with a constant sense of lurking terror that has all too often surfaced in nightmares, or more maturely, in peace demonstrations...
Part of the problem lies in the fact that a bet made by the utilities in the mid-1960s did not quite pay off. At that time, nuclear energy seemed cheap, easily produced and pollution-free. Starting in 1963, utility after utility committed itself to the peaceful atom until in 1967 almost half of all new generating power ordered was nuclear...
...pension plans continue payments for decades longer? Will aging control become as vital an issue as birth control? In short, the changes resulting from a drastic extension of the lifespan, or even from a series of life-extending bonuses, may eventually exceed those brought about by splitting the atom or man's voyages to the moon...
...frantically for Charlton Heston, who, it may be recalled, got hung up in a time warp in the original. Franciscus and Heston's girl friend (Linda Harrison) escape from the same simian world where humans are treated as lower animals and stumble onto an underground civilization of humanoid atom-bomb freaks. These thermonuclear trippers are about to launch civilization's last A-bomb against their ape rivals. Worse, they have Charlton Heston stashed in a cage so he cannot thwart their plan. Franciscus and Heston try to fight their way out, but alas, fate and the scriptwriters conspire...