Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the burden of Richard Rhodes' excellent book about the visionaries whose pure science was alloyed with the tainted art of politics. Bits and pieces of the atom bomb story are well known, especially the dramatic race to Trinity by J. Robert Oppenheimer and his brainy cohort at Los Alamos, N. Mex. In Rhodes' comprehensive view, the blinding flash of that achievement climaxes decades of brilliant ideas, technological innovations and the contributions of incandescent personalities. "Had astronomers been watching," he writes, "they could have seen ((the explosion)) reflected from the moon, literal moonshine." But moments after the artificial sunburst...
...prolonged exposure to radium; the flat feet that kept Albert Einstein out of the army; Nobel Prizewinner Enrico Fermi arriving for an appointment at the U.S. Navy Department and overhearing the desk officer tell his admiral, "There's a wop outside"; F.D.R.'s 13-word handwritten approval of atom bomb research beginning with "O.K."; the B-29 pilot who named a plane after his mother, Enola...
...Harvard 7, BG 4. The Falcons need a three-point shot. They need to throw the bomb...
...thrill of cheap energy may prove perilously intoxicating. As U.S. energy consumption increases, imports are reaching alarming levels. At the same time, depressed oil prices have caused U.S. petroleum production and exploration to dwindle dangerously. This means, experts caution, that America is setting a time bomb. The scary possibility is that by the mid-1990s, as the U.S. becomes dependent on foreign oil for more and more of its consumption, OPEC could suddenly and steeply raise prices, throwing the economy into chaos. Warns Interior Secretary Donald Hodel: "OPEC is being placed back in the driver's seat...
...February, barely two months after Soviet authorities unexpectedly released him from internal exile, Andrei Sakharov created a worldwide sensation by turning up at an international forum in Moscow. Sakharov, 65, a nuclear physicist often described as the "father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb" and a courageous defender of human rights in his homeland, spent nearly seven years under virtual house arrest with his wife Elena Bonner in the closed city of Gorky. During the February forum, Sakharov delivered three speeches eloquently expressing his concerns about human rights, U.S.-Soviet relations and the nuclear arms race. He made a slightly edited...