Word: fusion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Increase cooperation in developing the peaceful uses of atomic energy, especially control of thermonuclear fusion and design of fast-breeder reactors...
Most scientists believe that the long-range answer to man's energy needs may lie in thermonuclear fusion. The process that fires the sun and all the other stars, fusion releases enormous amounts of energy-but only small amounts of dangerous radioactivity -through the combination of light atoms of hydrogen to form heavier atoms of helium. The earth's seas contain an almost unlimited store of an isotope of hydrogen especially suitable as fusion fuel: deuterium, or heavy hydrogen...
...controlled fusion, as opposed to the uncontrolled variety in an H-bomb, is extremely difficult to achieve. Not only must the deuterium be confined in a dense plasma, but it also must be heated to temperatures of some hundred million degrees. Even if fusion research is vastly expanded, thermonuclear power will probably not be available as an energy source for decades to come...
...suddenly, speculation on the possibility of a fusion mayor became serious, as Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Liberal Party chieftain Alex Rose tried to find someone they could agree on. Rockefeller wanted to prevent any possible change-of-mind by his arch-rival Lindsay, as well as extend his iron-hand control of the state into the city. Rose wanted to preserve Liberal influence at City Hall by making the next mayor beholden to him. Both Rockefeller and Rose wanted to stop the growing momentum of Congressman Mario Biaggi, a conservative Democrat who was also the most decorated policeman...
...creating what? Historian Arnold Toynbee finds that "a real beginning of fusion" is under way, raising the prospect of the first genuinely European era since the early 16th century of Erasmus and St. Thomas More, when Latin-speaking scholars could still wan der freely over a continent that had not yet been divided by the Reformation, the first stirrings of nationalism and embryonic dreams of empire. On the eve of Prime Minister Edward Heath's talks with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt in Bonn last week, the normally restrained London Times not only praised Brandt's "moral authority...