Word: fissioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Slow Fission. Even if the shock wave fails to set off the warhead's conventional explosive, it can damage electronic components or cause sufficient changes in the critical shape of internal cavities within the warhead to prevent a nuclear explosion. In addition, the heating of the ICBM's exterior may so damage its heat shield that the missile would burn up upon entering the atmosphere...
...eight-man faculty advisory committee on whether to proceed on a contract. Penn Provost David R. Goddard explained, however, that the university will accept secret work during a national emergency and will never divulge information endangering national security. University scientists, he noted, rightly published nothing on nuclear fission while Nazi Germany was trying to create an atomic bomb...
...Gone Fission. Nuclear power is also creating a profound reaction in Europe. From nearly three dozen plants, Europe last year generated nuclear energy equal to 2,000,000 tons of coal; by 1980, the figure is expected to rise to 125 million tons. Britain now has more nuclear-produced power than all the rest of the world; France, which is short of other power sources, is trying to catch up. The Fifth Plan provides for starts on five to eight reactors...
...only 130 kilotons. The Atomic Energy Commission found traces of lithium 6, a thermonuclear material right enough, but the major element in the explosion was enriched uranium-the same as in Peking's two earlier tests. China's first H-bomb will probably be a triple-stage fission-fusion-fission monster of the same "dirty" quality as the giant Khrushchevian 40-megaton bombs that were exploded prior to the 1963 test ban. Those bombs are too big to be delivered by missile warheads...
...reserved for Giovanna Ralli, a newer exotic, who smartly assumes the attitudes of a neurotic young matron beset by conventional woes. Her parents are a wretchedly selfish pair; she cannot concentrate on raising her young son; and her physicist husband is so preoccupied with the mysteries of nuclear fission that he seldom wonders what his wife thinks. Giovanna consults an analyst and discovers that she thinks mostly about Anouk...