Word: fissioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early-type fission bombs killed mostly by blast and heat, which people who had just experienced World War II knew about. Radioactivity, however, was new, and therefore doubly feared. Undetected by any of man's senses, it killed mysteriously. The few Japanese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki who died of radiation sickness received more horrified sympathy than the many who were burned to death or blown to smoking shreds...
Retreat into Mystery. Two weeks after Fermi reached New York, he heard about the famous telegram telling Niels Bohr that uranium fission had been discovered in Germany. Fermi knew what it meant: that enormous energy might be extracted from the uranium atom. Soon he was part of the vast U.S. attempt to release that energy in an atomic bomb...
...that Russia has passed into the hands of a group of men who are displaying striking flexibility and adaptability in their handling of domestic and foreign problems." They also, he says, have "a large measure of confidence" as a result of "possession of the hydrogen and atomic fission bombs, a fine fleet of jet aircraft [and] industry to match paces with the U.S." In foreign policy they are determined to convince the world that Russia "is now ruled by a group of 'reasonable men.'" Many Moscow diplomats, said he, "believe that American policy is suffering severely from...
...Russia. We should assume for the purpose of our national policies and planning that the Russians will reach this point during the year 1956. We need new national policies for what I would call Phase II of the Atomic Age-the time when the Russians will have enough fission and hydrogen bombs, and the planes and missiles to make a sneak attack on the United States which will destroy our major cities and most of our industries. In the first phase the United States was safe; the atomic bomb was a powerful asset in the American arsenal. In the second...
...Episodes of space travel are by no means rare in the imaginings of the mentally ill," says Plank. Equally symptomatic is the "last man" motif, in which all mankind has been annihilated save for one individual-or, more productively, a fertile couple, "Far from being a byproduct of atomic fission," Plank contends, this theme goes back to Greek mythology and "grows from the fertile soil of unconscious drives." Such standard schizophrenic symptoms as delusions of grandeur, of persecution, and of superhuman influence are science-fiction staples...