Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nations flapped fitfully in a bland September breeze. Within the limestone and beaverboard temple of U.N.'s General Assembly had gathered the delegates of almost all the world's powers, great, middle and minuscule. Their agenda bulged with more than 60 issues and proposals-from The Bomb to how to make life more comfortable and diverting for visiting delegates...
...could find no way, for instance, to stamp out powder trains like the one that was sputtering in the Balkans.Twenty Soviet vetoes in a year and a half had left the Council feeling both impotent and irritable. Russia refused to meet the majority on plans to control the atomic bomb...
...difficulty of living with the atom bomb is not that few people have read Aristotle, but that so few people understand or care about the structure of contemporary society. The main task is to set people thinking about social questions, and to have them take seriously their own obligations. ... It is this practical problem . . . which must engage the attention of those who plan to save civilization by education, rather than the discussion of moral ideals by people who need only great books, a room and some company, in order to save...
...never-never land far beyond the frontier of practical technology. But Nobelman Rabi compared Lamb & Retherford's criticism of the Dirac theory with Einstein's modification of Newton's laws of motion. It took 40 years for Einstein's relativity to grow into the atom bomb...
...priority is settled, Element 61 will have no official name. Dr. Hopkins has called it illinium. Mr. Glendenin wants to call it prometheum after the Greek god Prometheus, giver of fire. One convention wag suggested grovesium, after loud-mouthed Major General Leslie R. Groves, military chief of the atom bomb project. Chemical symbol...