Word: atomizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...U.S.S.R. and four Communist puppet governments sat around a table in the Palais des Nations and talked disarmament (see FOREIGN NEWS), while in the next room the U.S.S.R. laid down a counterproposal -real or propaganda?-to the U.S. and Britain on the abolition of nuclear tests (see The Atom). The conferences stirred in men's minds not only the ancient dream of peace, but also the modern nightmare of annihilation...
...Case Against. Opponents of acceptance stood on firm technical and military grounds. They argued that a ban would freeze nuclear development at its current pioneering stage. It wo.uld stymie such peaceful nuclear pursuits as atom-powered space probes and massive use of atomic explosives to blast a new Alaskan harbor. It would make more difficult the already difficult job of keeping together skilled teams of scientists in AEC labs. It would stall the development of clean, small, highly mobile tactical weapons...
Built in a shack behind his house, the homemade atom smasher is not the least of Jerry's achievements. He has made and launched several rockets, using his own homemade fuel. He has designed an aerial camera with a parachute release triggered from the ground. He is now working on a sodium-lox rocket, studying low-temperature fusion through antiparticles, and putting together a binary digital computer, housed in a discarded dresser...
...Baker, inventor of a satellite-tracking camera; Chemist R. B. Woodward, synthesizer of quinine and reserpine; Physicist Ivan A. Getting, World War II radar pioneer and now a vice president of Raytheon; Physicist James B. Fisk, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and the West's chief expert on atom-test bans in the Geneva negotiations with the Russians...
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