Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world living with the atomic bomb last week heard two notes of modest cheer...
...Atomic Energy Commission announced that plutonium, core of the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki, had, to a certain extent, been tamed. It would still be a long time before atomic energy would turn a wheel or drive a plane, but the new "fast reactor" (see SCIENCE) was a long step beyond the apocalyptic vision of Bikini...
...Alamos, N.Mex., the atomic Forbidden City, the physicists described a gentle atom bomb. It contains enough "fissionable material" to vaporize its surroundings. But instead of exploding, it smolders as quietly as a furnace banked for the night...
...Earth's Disorder. One of the more trenchant discussions of the subject has appeared in the French magazine Esprit, written by its editor, Personalist Philosopher Emmanuel Mounier. Like Easton, Mounier believes that neither the atom bomb nor any technical invention can have the slightest significance for the Christian interpretation of history. God's ending of the world and man's ending of it would be as different in essence as the setting of the sun and the snuffing of a candle...
...barbed wire of the camp's, the criminals are the elite, bureaucrats usually wangle the cushy administrative jobs, political offenders most often are worked to death by a deliberate policy of bloodless liquidations. A political offender need not be a man or woman who wants to toss a bomb at Stalin, but merely one who tells a disrespectful joke about...