Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pavilions of Pepsi-Cola and Illinois, is responsible for this amusing tale of what electricity has wrought in the home. Dad brags about his household appliances through three generations, but Mom, rescued from work, has the last word. Besides Disney's dummies, G.E. has a display of nuclear fusion...
...domain that is spread over more than 40% of the earth's surface-85 million politically hot and militarily explosive square miles of land and sea. His command bristles with a complement of 440,000 men, 400 vessels, 3,500 planes, and countless tons of conventional and nuclear weapons...
...wasps that developed success fully into adults. Of the two kinds of wasps that built nests among the instruments, Shinn noticed that only the yellow-and-black daubers used radioactive mud. The nests of the closely related pipe-organ daubers were always as free of radioactivity as if nuclear phys ics had never come to Tennessee. How could the wasps tell the difference...
...Ridge, a team of five nuclear scientists recorded tough texts on thermodynamics for Gerald McCollum, a blind student at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and wound up feeling that they had a vested interest in his future. McCollum came through: he graduated second in his class. Now McCollum is at Brown University, and this summer he is using a translated Russian physics text in a research project financed by the National Science Foundation. His reader: Morton Hamermesh, assistant director of the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, who helped to translate the book...
Telltale evidence against Woodward was produced by neutron activation analysis (N.A.A.), which subjects specimens under study to irradiation with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. The fine details of the specimens' chemical composition can then be deduced from the pattern of radiation they give off. So sensitive is the technique that it can detect a thimbleful of poison dissolved in ten tank cars of water...