Word: atomizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fuel stolen from production facilities. Often the ingredients these scam artists pass off as "samples" are benign substances, like cesium 137 and low-enriched uranium, that cannot be used to make a bomb. But no one doubts that a market for the real stuff exists. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, membership in the world's nuclear club requires only 55 lbs. of highly enriched uranium or 18 lbs. of plutonium to make an atom bomb...
...know anything we can do about that," the Pentagon chief conceded, referring to U.S. intelligence reports that Pyongyang may already possess one or two atom bombs. "What we can do something about, though," he added, "is stopping them from building beyond that." Perry's statement is at odds with what President Clinton declared last November when he said that "North Korea cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb; we have to be very firm about it." That resolve has apparently been replaced by a recognition that the seepage of nuclear know-how is relentless. After surveying atomic-weapons programs...
What's really at stake in the Clipper war is actually quite simple: information. In the Atomic Age, everyone wondered who had the atom bomb. In the Information Age, everyone wonders who has the information. Clipper merely represents a battle over who has the information and who can get the information. The Information Superhighway is meant to ease our transition into a great new era by giving us 500 cable channels and amazing new toys like the Powerbook. Society will supposedly be able to do amazing new things and evolve into a higher plane of being...
...judge Peninsula's recent issues by the standard is akin to judging atom bombs weak because they're not hydrogen bombs...
Newly released data show that meteoroids up to several yards across are continually slamming into the earth's atmosphere and exploding, some with a force as powerful as a small atom bomb. Researchers estimate that 10 times as many airbursts occurred during this time period but were not detected...