Word: atomizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elect John Kennedy. This had all the earmarks of a calculated leak designed to con the West into accepting Khrushchev as its favorite Communist. So did the report that Chairman Liu had boasted that his country now has four nuclear reactors in operation and will soon explode its first atom bomb. Once again, Moscow appeared to be trying to use the threat of China's nuclear potential to disarm the West, while simultaneously telling Peking that with just a few years' patience Communism could peacefully attain absolute military and economic superiority over the West...
Typical of such decisions were the choice in England and the United States to start work on the atom bomb, and the choices in the U.S. and Russia about intercontinental missiles. Snow's "parable," however, concerned the secret decision made in 1935 in England to develop radar...
...grows out of the barrel of a gun," quoted Fu. "Politics is war that sheds no blood while war is bloodshedding politics." Against the fearful power of nuclear arms, Fu spoke for the masters of 670 million Chinese: "It is man who is the leading and decisive factor. Though atom bombs have huge and destructive power, they will never be able to occupy territories or settle a fight. The issue of a future war will not be decided by guided missiles or atom bombs. It will be decided...
After the war, Libby joined the newly formed Institute of Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago and specialized in peaceful employment of the atom. Investigating the feeble radioactivity of air, he found that a good part of it comes from carbon 14, a radioactive isotope of carbon that is formed when cosmic rays hit nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere. This led to a brilliant idea that has revolutionized a long list of sciences...
...system to detect clandestine atom bomb tests must consider tests in space. A nuclear burst in a vacuum does not form a bright fireball; it gives off very little visible light and even if it were as near as the moon, its flash might be too feeble to attract unalerted attention. Sponsors of such a test would know where and when to look for it, and they would have instruments ready, to assess the results. A sneak test of this sort would be difficult and expensive, but not impossible...