Word: fissionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...factual letter to Joint Committee on Atomic Energy Chairman Carl Durham of North Carolina. "Atomic bombs," said Strauss, "are only taken from stockpiles for purposes of routine inspection or for modification or improvement. No material is 'inserted' in bombs for the purpose of increasing the amount of fission products or to add to the total fallout." At that, Anderson arose wrathfully on the Senate floor, declared that Strauss "in effect four times calls me a liar...
...believe we are the only humans in all the cosmic world? Astronomer Struve says: "It is perfectly conceivable that some intelligent race meddled once too often with nuclear laws and blew themselves to bits." This is just about what may hit us-if we keep monkeying around with nuclear fission...
...have exploded devices equal to 3,000,000 tons of high explosives . . . On the assumption that I am right in thinking we are not in front in this race, we should not forget that our tests are more important to us than theirs are to them." Two Kinds of Fission. But nearly every political poll shows the Tories trailing Labor in popularity, and odds are that after the next general election, Britain will have a Labor government. Wrote London's conservative Daily Telegraph last week: "These foolish concessions might lessen the danger of political fission within the Labor Party...
...Atomic Energy Commission. Advocates of AEC control argue that since sophisticated space vehicles will be atomic-powered, the fission-knowledgeable Atomic Energy Commission is the logical agency to supervise perfection of such vehicles. Moreover, AEC is a civilian agency already in a scientific business, with a keen understanding of military needs, e.g., hydrogen bombs, as well as civilian problems, e.g., atomic power. Opponents point out that AEC maintains no launching sites or rocket laboratories and has insufficient space-trained personnel, could be no more than a management organization farming out work...
...Aron sees it, did not involve so much a change of mind as a change in title to power. They are unlike the British, whose revolution came on the installment plan, and was hardly noticed until it was all over. The French Revolution was different: it created a deep fission in the French mind between traditional and supposedly progressive values, and left all questions unresolved. The revolution tended to be a permanent thing-an ideal, a matter for the future rather than a historical event. Its romance became a myth which grew to include other revolutions, notably the Russian, until...