Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be up to the already burdened International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry to settle the issue. The union still has not determined who first made elements 104 and 105, for which each side has filed claims and names. The Russians are calling 104 "kurchatovium" (after their A-bomb pioneer, Igor Kurchatov) and 105 "niels bohrium" (for the famed Danish physicist). Americans have dubbed 104 "rutherfordium" (after the English scientist Ernest Rutherford) and 105 "hahnian" (for German Chemist Otto Hahn, who discovered nuclear fission...
ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS. The feeling that the population of the U.S.-and, indeed, that of the world-is using up too much coal, oil and just about everything else has also made many young people hesitate to have babies. Paul Ehrlich, in his 1968 book The Population Bomb, and the Club of Rome, in The Limits to Growth (1972), commanded wide attention with their predictions that the world faces catastrophe unless both economic and population growth is slowed. Such Jeremiahs have been roundly challenged, most recently by British Economist Wilfred Beckerman, whose book, In Defence of Economic Growth, argues that...
...nuclear powers decide to take the fateful step, there is little to stop them. Constructing an atomic bomb requires access to no secret information. Even in 1945, the basic principles of nuclear weapons were widely known. A booklet, declassified in 1961 and now available for $4 from the U.S. Department of Commerce, describes in detail-complete with diagrams-the technical problems the U.S. encountered constructing its first bomb. It is not surprising that four years ago a precocious 14-year-old sketched the workings of a nuclear explosive and included it as part of a bomb threat that terrified Orlando...
...deranged people or extremists making their own nuclear weapons. It no longer is absurd to imagine Palestinian terrorists or urban guerrillas stealing enough Pu-239, hiring scientists and manufacturing an easily transportable nuclear explosive. As Arms Expert Dr. Theodore B. Taylor points out, one terrorist group with one bomb could blackmail a metropolis. The University of Virginia's Willrich fears that some day a black market in fissionable materials could develop, with syndicates of organized criminals stealing from private reactors and selling to individuals or governments...
...teacher of history and journalism at Columbia, has written the first concise history of the U.S. roughly from 1947 to 1967. He deals to some extent with the textures of everyday living-the rush to the suburbs and the rise of the barbecue pit, James Dean fan clubs and bomb shelters. But his main aim is to describe the enormous effect of the cold war on American life...