Word: neutrons
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...YORK TIMES recently carried an editorial entitled "The Virtues of the Neutron Bomb," defending the most recent piece of Strangelovian paraphernalia. The editorial stated that the neutron bomb's "modest blast and intense but circumscribed and short-lived radiation make it particularly effective against advancing tanks and armies." The cigar-chomping military brass must be dancing a jig of delight, detecting more support for their new toy. Meanwhile, most folks are sorely disappointed: at least another year before the Pentagon alchemists conjure up the Doomsday Machine. Now let's see...how many grams of uranium does it take to wipe...
Black holes occur when a neutron or another dense star collapses, and causes an area of violent activity in space exerting such strong gravitational forces that no light rays can emerge. This area then "vanishes out of sight, so to speak," Alastair G.W. Cameron, chairman of the Astronomy Department, said yesterday...
Although U.S. officials deny any violation of that agreement, the Defense Nuclear Agency reports that in five years ending last June, AFRRI used 1,379 primates-undoubtedly nearly all of them rhesus monkeys-in its tests. One typical set of tests was designed to simulate the effects of the neutron bomb, which kills not by blast or burning but by radiation. In order to determine monkeys' work capacity when healthy, they were conditioned by means of electric shocks to run on a treadmill for six hours. Then they were subjected to huge doses of radiation -from...
Yadava said, "Weapons like neutron bombs that we have now will not destroy school buildings, only the beautiful children living in it--this is insanity, it is the challenge of humanity...
...good friends Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Don Rickles--ya big dummy, ha, ha--and Rose Marie, and I just thought I'd show you some of my best stuff, in a milieu which hardly lent itself to spontaneous creative expression. Surely, if I throw in the rights to that neutron-bomb joke, we can arrange a little something for the column next week? Besides, it's reading period and all, and the kids need something to lift them out of their doldrums...