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...could this happen? Richard Feynman, the Caltech physicist who turned out to be one of the commission's most insightful members, probably explained it best. The joint hazard was often discussed before a flight, Feynman pointed out. "It flies and nothing happens," he theorized at a commission hearing. "Then it is suggested, therefore, that the risk is no longer so high for the next flight--we can lower our standards a bit because we got away with it last time. It's a kind of Russian roulette." In fact, with each pull of the launch trigger, the odds...
...outraged when shown a series of five secretly recorded Soviet videotapes of herself and Sakharov that gave the impression they led a comfortable life in Gorky. And she was disturbed last February when Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev told the French Communist Party newspaper that Sakharov, a nuclear physicist who helped develop the first Soviet hydrogen bomb, could never leave the country because he was still privy to state secrets. Soon afterward, at a March reception in Washington, she voiced fears that the Soviets might not allow her to rejoin Sakharov. In April she told the Overseas Press Club that...
...film's charm lies in the fact that Paul's bomb begins ticking suspensefully not for any vast didactic reasons, but because everyone associated with it behaves in recognizably human fashion. Paul, for example, started to tinker with fissionable material down in the basement because a physicist named John Mathewson (played by John Lithgow in his best slow-burn style) is intent on tinkering with Paul's newly separated mom (Jill Eikenberry). This does not send the boy into an Oedipal frenzy, but it makes him wary when John invites him to his lab to play with a laser...
With several hundred proud parents and siblings in attendance, a fifteen-minute address by a Freeman Dyson, a physicist and noted author highlighted the society's 200th annual Commencement-time gathering. Dyson's remarks, which drew on the writings of William Blake and of 17th century author Richard Hakluyt, concerned man's tradition of exploration and the implications of that tradition for the use of space...
...visited Kiev two days after the mishap. Tests by health technicians at a Consumers Power nuclear plant near South Haven, Mich., showed that 14 of the tourists had absorbed almost 1,500 millirems of radiation, or 50 times the amount in a chest X ray. Robert English, corporate health physicist for Consumers Power, said that the Americans faced minimal long-term health hazards. However, some people living in the immediate vicinity of the reactor may have risked death or, at the very least, severe radiation burns...