Word: atomizer
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...skyscraper fires, staying inside might have been exactly the right thing to do. In the case of the Twin Towers, at least 135 people who theoretically had access to open stairwells--and enough time to use them--never made it out, the report found.Since the early days of the atom bomb, scientists have been trying to understand how to move masses of people out of danger. Engineers have fashioned glowing exit signs, sprinklers and less flammable materials. Elaborate computer models can simulate the emptying of Miami or the Sears Tower, showing thousands of colored dots streaming for safety like...
Gorbachev had another idea. Within hours of the U.S. announcement, he declared the Soviet Union would launch a five-month moratorium on nuclear testing. It would begin on Aug. 6, the 40th anniversary of the atom-bomb detonation over Hiroshima, and would be extended indefinitely if Washington joined in. The U.S. rejected the offer. For one thing, Shultz noted as he arrived in Helsinki, the Soviets had proclaimed such a unilateral moratorium before, in the late '50s and early '60s, and then had abruptly begun what he described as "the largest nuclear-testing program ever undertaken." Nonetheless, the Gorbachev proposal...
Pearl Harbor is no excuse for Hiroshima. The Japanese attacked a military base; they did not incinerate downtown Honolulu. The atom bomb could have been exploded over Tokyo Bay, within sight of the Emperor. Even the flattening of Mount Fuji would have been preferable to carbonizing humans. Jake Cipris Millburn...
...timing is the most important consideration we should question regarding our use of the atom bomb against Japan. The bombs were dropped on Aug. 6 and 9. The earliest possible invasion date of the mainland was Nov. 1, 1945. Since the Japanese were on the verge of surrender, dropping the Bomb could have been delayed two weeks or even two months. A surrender might have been obtained with out the Bomb. Dick Mumford Elizabethtown...
Like generations of authors before him, Edgar Lawrence Doctorow blends fact and fancy and calls the results novels. His tragedy of political passion, The Book of Daniel, was based conspicuously on the Rosenberg atom-spy case. Although he changed names and broadened perspectives, it was impossible to turn a page without thinking about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on their way to the electric chair. The real had again overpowered the imagined...