Word: cosmical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kremlin jitters may have planted a Paris report that Russia had "infra-cosmic lays," which could explode any atom bomb from 12 miles. The report added that "safety belts," studded with "infra-cosmic ray" generators, are to be scattered from 60 to 100 miles around strategic cities and industries...
...problem. Their most powerful cyclotrons and betatrons shoot out particles with energies up to 100,000,000 electron-volts. This is practically no energy at all, said Professor Wheeler. From outside the earth's atmosphere a wealth of high-energy particles is constantly showering down. By studying these cosmic rays, Professor Wheeler believes, we may learn the ultimate secret: how to totally transform matter-any & every kind of matter-into energy...
Last week Moscow's Izvestia lifted the recent blackout on Dr. Kapitza, said, that he had helped equip a great new laboratory on Mt. Alagoz, a remote eminence in remote Soviet Armenia. Kapitza's announced activity: research in stratospheric cosmic rays, a roundabout approach to the harnessing of atomic energy. U.S. scientists, pondering the sparse accounts from Moscow, were willing to swear that there was nothing roundabout in Dr. Kapitza's other atomic doings...
...group of thoughtful U.S. citizens met at Dublin, N.H. to re-examine the United Nations Charter in the atom's cosmic light. A U.S. official in London, noting that the Dublin thinkers were all internationalist from way back, commented dryly that they probably would have called for a reinforced world state, atom...
Daily, they crowded his backyard, filled with wires attached to the cosmic rectifier. Some held the wires in their hands, others put them between their teeth to get better contact. After treatment, some thrust cosmic wires into jugs of water, thus manufacturing free medicine to take home. The crowds swelled...