Word: hydrogenate
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...minute success in court, the victory is far from complete. The furor over Cannikin is but the latest expression of citizen discontent with the relatively unchecked freedom with which weapons are commissioned, tested and deployed. In the years since World War II, there have been approximately 500 atomic-and hydrogen-bomb tests disclosed by the AEC, almost all accepted without serious challenge in Congress or across the country. Those days are clearly over...
...reserves of uranium 235, which nuclear reactors now use as fuel. Meanwhile, such alternatives as harnessing the energy of the sun-or of the earth's tides, winds, or internal heat-remain little more than scientific pipedreams. Even the vision of controlling the power of the hydrogen bomb will probably not be realized, despite recent progress in the laboratory with thermonuclear fusion, before the turn of the century. How, then, can the U.S. meet its impending energy crisis...
...Heat Engine. By thus "seeding" Ginger, scientists of Stormfury-a joint Commerce and Defense departments project-hoped to diminish the hurricane's awesome power, equivalent to the wallop of 400 20-megaton hydrogen bombs. Literally a huge heat engine, a hurricane is formed by spirals of warm, moist air rising from tropical seas. As the heat-packed vapor spins increasingly faster, it converges toward the eye of the storm and is forced upward; meanwhile within the eye, the temperature rises and pressure drops. Acting like a chimney, the walls of the warm vortex continue to refuel themselves...
...about 1,400 m.p.h.) at 50,000 ft. or Mach 1 plus (760 m.p.h.) at 500 ft. Backfire is apparently crammed with sophisticated electronic aids to confuse radar tracking. Carrying a crew of three, the plane has an estimated payload of 50 megatons in weaponry, including parachute-dropped hydrogen bombs. With one refueling, Backfire appears capable of striking the U.S. and returning home...
...universe down to earth. Like cosmic rays from outer space, the particles shot through the Bevatron are really bare nuclei of atoms-in this case nitrogen-that have been stripped of their electrons and accelerated to tremendous velocities. By shooting these tiny bullets into a plastic target rich in hydrogen atoms, the Berkeley team was able to dissect the laboratory-produced cosmic rays. The collisions fragmented the nitrogen nuclei into every element lighter than nitrogen in the periodic table. By analyzing the results of this and similar experiments, physicists hope to bolster their meager store of knowledge about not only...