Word: fissioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since 1940, U.S. physicists could talk about atomic fission without looking over their shoulders. The subject of The Bomb itself was taboo at the annual midwest meeting of the American Physical Society in Chicago; but there was plenty more for the atomic scientists to talk about...
They listened approvingly to experts on everything. Indefatigable Harold Stassen* was there to talk about world cooperation. Fiery Fiorello LaGuardia made a moving plea for UNRRA. Physicist Harold C. Urey and Major General Leslie Groves, Grand Panjandrum of atomic energy, explained nuclear fission...
...after the German Panzers had driven through Poland, and the citizens of Hiroshima were still going quietly about their daily tasks, the little man who hates to write letters wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt. In it he stated his conviction that a controlled chain reaction of atomic fission (and hence the atom bomb) was now feasible, that the German Government was working on an atomic bomb, that the U.S. must begin research on the bomb at once or civilization would perish. Einstein enclosed a report by his friend, Dr. Leo Szilard, describing in more technical language...
...this most "backward" of islands, the most progressive of centuries would write in one blinding stroke of disintegration the inner meaning of technological civilization: all matter is speed and flame. Well might the stone giants embedded in the solid earth of Easter Island feel, in the far ripple of fission brought them by the waves, a tremor of finality...
...photographic film had been fogged by mysterious radioactive particles in strawboard packaging. It shifted to a new source of strawboard 500 miles from the first; both were in the Middle West. The new supply also turned out to be radioactive. Apparently a large area had been peppered with fission products from the atomic bomb explosion...