Word: plutonium
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...government and U.S. State Department, some money is more important than other money. Foreign policy, now, as always, is not conducted for humanitarian reasons, but for reasons of power and finances. South Africans' white supremacy used to be based on diamonds and gold. Today it is uranium, converted into plutonium and then nuclear weapons, that most strengthens minority rule. Harvard's holdings in uranium companies represent a $100-million investment in South Africa's nuclearization...
...Yellowcake: The usable product of uranium milling operations, later converted into plutonium MARKET VALUE OF HARVARD STOCKHOLDING IN URANIUM CORPORATIONS COMPANY VALUE Atlantic Ritchfield-ARCO-Anacona $17,465,122 Duke Power 3,323,592 Continental Oil 6,538,679 Kerr McGee 1,645,230 Phillips Petroleum 8,996,703 Exxon 35,442,488 Gulf Oil 7,126,660 Mobil 18,360,622 Shell Oil 1,234,631 SOCAL 20,912,364 Virginia Electric...
...into a furnace where it is baked at 950° F until it turns into a nondescript gray button three inches in diameter. Such a button could be worth $100,000, for the job of this robot, which goes into regular operation in a few months, is transporting reprocessed plutonium, one of the most toxic substances known to man. Until now, this dangerous task has been done by men in elaborate space suits. The robot, which knows neither weariness nor boredom, also knows nothing of danger...
...spectrometers to analyze composition of the atmosphere. The magnetometers for locating and measuring magnetic fields are carried on the opposite side of the antenna, on a derrick-like boom (13m, 43 ft.), to keep them free from magnetic distortion. Power to run all this equipment comes from three cylindrical Plutonium generators carried below the spacecraft to keep the radiation from affecting the instruments...
...from the southern border of New Mexico and just over 100 miles from Alamogordo, the site lies between two jagged mountain ranges in a valley named by the conquistadors Jornada del Muerto (Dead Man's Walk). It is remote and entirely unpopulated, the perfect testing ground for the plutonium monster that the "longhairs" were concocting at Los Alamos in 1944. That winter Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atom bomb, was pressed to give the site a code name. The erudite scientist glanced down at some lines of John Donne's poetry in a volume that...