Word: thermonuclear
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...propelled by thin sails filled by the feeble but inexorable pressure of sunlight or traveling on ion drives that get their boost by shooting high-energy electrified particles out of the rear of the vehicle. Other possible vehicles for space travel may be propelled by a series of tiny thermonuclear explosions using pellets of fuel mined on the moon, or by mass drivers employing electromagnetic fields to expel bucketloads of dirt from the back...
...become word. His style swings from confessional to clinical, from pop psych to steamy paperback prose: "Her body fired explosively, every muscle contracting, and her back arched grand mal off the bed from the abutments of her feet and her shoulders." A passage comparing his own orgasm to a thermonuclear explosion may start a chain reaction of giggles...
...Soviet Union recedes into history, the threat of global thermonuclear warfare is waning considerably. But we are just beginning to learn some of the secrets of that cold war era when the two superpowers were locked in a state of high alert. This week correspondent Ted Gup advances our understanding greatly with a cover story focusing on the Federal Government's grand plan to preserve post-apocalypse control. As Ted reports, planning went far beyond contingencies to shelter top-level bureaucrats and ensure the survival of the U.S. government. It also included plans to rescue the nation's cultural heritage...
Cover: Photograph of thermonuclear detonation during the Pacific tests in 1958, from Los Alamos National Laboratory...
...nuclear- weapons programs, hired his entire Moscow lab out to Sun Microsystems of Mountain View, Calif., to develop computers and software. Also last week, the U.S. Department of Energy signed a one-year contract with scientists at Moscow's Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy to do research on thermonuclear fusion, a potentially limitless energy source that American physicists have been struggling with for decades. Both deals are tremendous bargains for the U.S. Sun is paying Babayan's 50 or so crack computer scientists just a few hundred dollars a year apiece. And the entire 116-member Kurchatov team is being...