Word: serpukhov
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...light, the strange effects predicated by the relativity theory begin to take a toll: the proton's mass becomes much larger than that of the stationary targets. Much of the proton's energy is spent simply in pushing the target particle. The Soviet Union's giant Serpukhov atom smasher, for example, accelerates protons to 70 billion electron volts, but the actual useful energy on impact is only 12BeV...
Even when this alphabet soup ceased to be dished up, and names emerged, the outside world was not sure just what was going on before Moscow. The Germans, it seemed, had reached Tula, Kalinin, Serpukhov, Maloyaroslavets, Volokolamsk, Mozhaisk. This was as obscure as the alphabet: what did it mean? It meant that the Germans had reached points no miles, 95, 70, 65, 62, 60 miles from the capital. They were edging. The closer they got to the city, the harder the going was. Still, they got closer...
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