Word: atomizer
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Seeger repeatedly cited the example of a book which explained how one can assemble an atom bomb. "Would you like such things available on bookstands?" he queried the Nieman Fellows...
Atomos, the Greek root of 'atom,' means indivisible, and it was once thought that atoms were the ultimate, indivisible constituents of matter, that is, they were regarded as elementary particles. One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure. In 1911 Ernest Rutherford showed that the atom consists of a small, dense nucleus surrounded by a cloud of electrons. It was subsequently revealed that the nucleus itself can be broken down into discrete particles, the protons and neutrons...
...quantum mechanics of the '30s, formulated by Schroedinger, Heisenberg and others, made astonishingly successfuly predictions about such atoms. Physicists turned their attention from the atom to the nucleus...
...each successive modern war, the competition in technology becomes more fierce-and more effective. The splitting of the atom and the exploring of space bear witness to the stimulus of competition, the convergence of efforts, the involuntary collaboration of wartime enemies. Technology is the natural foe of nationalism...
...universe−agree that the biblical account of creation, in imagining an initial void, may be uncannily close to the truth. The universe, they believe, is the expanding remnant of a huge fireball that was created 20 billion years ago by the explosion of a giant primordial atom. The debris of the fireball, like the fragments of a titanic bomb, is still speeding outward from this cataclysmic blast, which started the process that produces not only stars and planets but also the complex structures of life. This startling concept, called the big bang theory, picked up its first substantial scientific...