Word: atomizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...within three to five years, we will have to rely on the weapons we now have." Today the weapons China most desperately wants -nuclear warheads-are nowhere in sight. Peking is so bitter about Moscow's reneging on its 1957 agreement to help create a Red Chinese atom bomb that it has broadcast details of the Russian about-face. Chinese physicists are now believed to be two to three years away from detonating a nuclear blast, farther still from what the experts call a "significant capability." But work proceeds on the project, for Peking hopes that achievement of nuclear...
Died. Sir Charles Jocelyn Hambro, 65, chairman of London's Hambros Bank Ltd., largest commercial bank in Europe, organizer of a 1941 parachute raid on laboratories carrying out Nazi nuclear experiments in Norway, wartime courier of secrets between British and American atomic scientists developing the atom bomb, and head of British underground operations in occupied Europe, for which he was knighted; following a hemorrhage; in London...
...assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing at Virginia's Langley Field. During World War II he flew B-24s over North Africa and Italy, commanded a Guam-based B-29 wing that made the first large-scale fire-bomb raid over Tokyo. Later, he helped plot the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the 1946 A-bomb tests at Bikini...
...major source of chemical energy for living organisms and differs in only one atom of phosphorous from a building block of the genetic code-carrier...
...There appeared to be two areas in which Russia and the U.S. might build some kind of an agreement in the near future: 1) putting international inspectors into territories of both East and West to watch and warn about preparations for a surprise attack, and 2) setting up "atom-free zones"-Such as Africa, and possibly even the Balkans...