Word: bombing
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...Gaulle tells the Germans that the integration of Germany into Western Europe and NATO doesn't mean anything, you will launch Germany into nationalism and neutralism. If you want to make a third force in Europe, independent of the U.S., with a French atomic bomb, then the Americans will end by leaving Europe, and then we shall have everything to fear...
...NATO when a messenger brought in a dispatch. Adenauer read it and, says a Frenchman, stood petrified, "a hard look in his Mongolian eyes." It was a news agency report of De Gaulle's speech at Grenoble demanding a veto for France on allied use of the nuclear bomb anywhere (TIME, Oct. 17). Pointing at the offending passage, he asked Debre: "What does this mean? If Khrushchev unleashes his rockets on us, must the allies remain paralyzed until France makes its decision...
...long as U-235, the explosive isotope in natural uranium, was hard to get, only the biggest powers could afford nuclear bombs. Now everybody-Mao, Castro, Nasser or whoever-may soon be able to have a bomb of his own. Previously, U-235 was almost impossible to separate from nonexplosive U-238, except with great expense and difficulty. But, said Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, member of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, last week: "recent advances in [centrifuge] technology have now brought the capability of producing weapons-grade material within the reach of not just...
This was no surprise to nuclear professionals. When the U.S. was developing the first atomic bomb during World War II, one of the several promising ways to purify U-235 was to pass uranium hexafluoride, a uranium-containing gas, through a centrifuge-a sort of souped-up cream separator-that would spin the gas at enormous speed and subject it to high, gravitylike forces. The slightly lighter molecules containing U-235 would tend to stay near the center of the centrifuge, while the heavier molecules containing U-238 would move toward the spinning sides...
Through the Pores. In their haste to develop the atomic bomb, the World War II scientists put aside the centrifuge. Instead, they built at Oak Ridge, Tenn. an enormous diffusion plant that worked by pumping uranium hexafluoride through thousands of porous barriers. The U-235 went through the pores a bit more easily than U-238, and was separated...