Word: neutrons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NATO commander, Haig has won high praise from European leaders and the Carter Administration for his efforts to strengthen the alliance's defenses. But he disagreed with Carter's decision to delay development of the neutron bomb, and has expressed serious misgivings about the SALT II treaty. His tough anti-Soviet stance makes him attractive to some Republicans. But party pros say Haig's closeness to Nixon and the Watergate crisis will hurt his presidential chances, though they think he might make a strong candidate for the U.S. Senate, depending on where he settles when he returns...
...McCulloch and Lee A. Fowler, was a triumph of radio astronomy. In 1974, while scanning the heavens with the giant bowl-shaped radio telescope near Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the researchers detected rhythmic radio signals from the constellation Aquila. The bursts were coming from a pulsar, or rapidly rotating neutron star-the incredibly compressed cadaver of a giant star whose nuclear fires have died out. Some 15,000 light-years away, it apparently was in orbit around a second compact object, perhaps another neutron star or even a black hole, whose gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light...
This friendly host then surprised his guests by disclosing that the U.S.S.R. had tested a neutron warhead "many years ago [but] never started production." U.S. experts agree that the Soviets have the ability to develop such a weapon, but there is no way to confirm tests because they would have been held underground. The Carter Administration is still considering whether the U.S. will produce neutron warheads; they could provide NATO with a devastating defense against Soviet tank attacks. It is perhaps for this reason that Moscow has been waging a worldwide propaganda campaign against U.S. development of the weapon. Brezhnev...
Plans call for "Einstein" to take about 3000 pictures each year of a wide range of cosmic phenomena, including neutron stars, pulsars, quasars, clusters of galaxies, and the background radiation that some scientists believe is a remnant of the Big Bang, the explosion of matter that started the universe...
...Astrophysics (CFA) team headed by professor of astronomy Riccardo Giacconi, the High Energy Astrophysical Observatory-B (HEAO-B), to be renamed the "Einstein Observatory" upon reaching orbit is designed to for the first time take high resolution X-Ray photographs of a variety of distant cosmic objects, including neutron stars, pulsars, quasars, hot gas clouds and clusters of galaxies...