Word: fissioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many complicated jobs that the machines can do are beyond human capabilities. The International Business Machines Corp.'s big calculator, for instance, has completed in 103 hours a job (see cut) relating to uranium fission for Princeton University. The same job would have taken a flesh & blood operator more than 100 years. The time could not have been shortened by putting 100 operators to work, because each part of the problem had to be done in sequence...
...principle had been studied for years before the scientists bumped into the method of uranium fission. After the war the President had vetoed allout effort on an H-bomb because it was not worth the regimentation of the economy and enormous expense. But the Russian atomic explosion had drastically clipped the atomic lead upon which a great deal of U.S. security and strategy was based. A group of top scientists went to work on a new analysis. Their report: granted a huge concentration of effort, a guarantee of ironclad priorities and some two to four billion dollars, they could...
Plutonius: "Geigers, beware, for Fission and ourselves will wed our forces to spawn a new and fiercer breed of demons...
...Fission: "If 'twere done, 'tis well 'twere done quickly, ere some other power cheat us of the race...
Means for Suicide. To guess at all is starry-eyed, for atomic energy still means the Abomb, a world of terror, not of promise. Uranium fission is only a beginning. The building-up of hydrogen into helium, if it could be achieved, would theoretically yield vastly more energy-which could also be used for bombs. The quantum theorists, roaming in abstract ecstacy among their lacy equations, long ago entered a world where matter and energy are almost indistinguishable. They talk matter-of-factly of turning all of a sample of matter into energy. A single pound of anything, unfrozen...