Word: specked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fearsome Fuel Another byproduct of reactors is plutonium, which can also be used as nuclear fuel. But long-lived plutonium is deadly to man and must be handled carefully. A tiny speck in the lungs, for example, can cause cancer. More important, plutonium is the prime ingredient of atomic bombs; as little as 22 lbs. is all that is required for a crude fission bomb with the explosive force of 100 tons of TNT. Thus the material must be safeguarded so as not to fall into the hands of terrorists or blackmailers - and this requires tight security regulations. Nader...
Charles Manson and Richard Speck can be protected forever, but God help the sick and the children...
...Charles Manson, Lieut, William Calley, Richard "Chicago Nurse" Speck. Charles "Texas Tower" Whitman, and Albert "Boston Strangler" DeSolve...
...Hannifin found himself invited to West Virginia by a munitions merchant to try his hand at firing M-16s and Uzis. "I didn't shoot badly," he reports, "perhaps because I remembered what my old rifle-team instructor at Boise, Idaho, high school taught me. I put a speck of cigarette tobacco in my shooting eye to help with the windage...
...Kitt Peak team decided to turn the "fly's eye" effect to its advantage. Keeping the exposures short froze the specks onto the plate before they were lost. Using that strategy gave the Kitt Peak astronomers much more information about the star than they could gather from a normal exposure. Each of the specks contains different information, like a peak or valley in the wavy sound track of a phonograph record; only when these bits of information are added together does the total information-in this case, a picture of a star-actually emerge. To analyze and combine...