Word: atomizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With a small force." he says, "the Air Force has to be proficient in every respect." O'Donnell's Air Force is; yet it is still uncomfortable in its role. All its atomic capabilities are next to useless in countries like Laos. "It's like knocking an ant off a bicycle," says O'Donnell. But the Air Force notes that Red China, if it cares to ask for trouble, offers a number of atom-sized military targets...
...news that buzzed through Washington last week marked another awesome milestone in the onrush of the atomic age. The confirmed facts: in the drab wastes of the Negev desert, tiny, semi-industrialized Israel, with the help of France, is building a 24,000-kw. nuclear reactor with the capacity to produce plutonium, a key ingredient for both a fission and hydrogen bomb. By 1964, estimated some U.S. atom experts, Israel could in theory set off a killingly effective atomic blast...
Without complex airplane or missile-weapons systems no nation can hope to equal the might of the U.S. or the U.S.S.R., even if it cuts quite a figure among its atom-less neighbors. But the world of the abundant atom offers infinite opportunities for small-scale tyranny, blackmail and bluster that may in time involve bigger nations. The changes make more imperative man's need to develop the willingness and devise a way to keep international law and order...
...Taking dead aim at the general, whom he removed from his Korean-war command in 1951, Truman replied: "Yes, MacArthur wanted to do that ... He wanted to bomb China and Eastern Russia and everything else." Last week came a counter-volley from MacArthur. "Completely false [and] fantastic." said he. "Atom bombing in the Korean war was never discussed either by my headquarters or in any communication to or from Washington." Then, insisting that he re-entered "this controversial dispute . . . only to prevent a complete prevarication of history," MacArthur restated his old case against ex-Commander in Chief Truman. "Our failure...
Linus Carl Pauling, 59, Caltech's outspoken, opinionated chemist, began prying into the personality of the atom just after World War I, when the laboratories of his specialty were alive with novel and productive ideas. The coincidence was explosive. For Pauling believes that "the best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." He had plenty. His theory about the nature of the chemical bond, the forces that make atoms stick together, won him a Nobel Prize in 1954. "Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life," says Pauling...