Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appalling implications of the explosive power now unlocked from the atom were not overlooked by the nation's leaders in war. President Truman voiced the danger: the processes of production and all the military applications thus far devised would not be divulged, "pending further examination of possible methods of protecting us and the rest of the world from the danger of sudden destruction...
...scientists, too, had been at work smashing the atom (see SCIENCE). But, thanks to the commandos, they now found the Germans had been ahead of them. The race of the laboratories began...
...Diplomat Herbert Agar, an ex-newsman and a greater expert on propaganda than on science, said in London last week: "If the war had gone on another six months ... it was probable that someone would have learned to break the atom without controlling it. ... There was a danger that the Germans would have learned . . . first...
Jack Puckett spent the greater part of last Sunday reducing his radio to an atom-smasher--or something that makes a horrible noise when desired...
...speculative London report suggested that the Nazis are using the same pressure principle to crush atoms. The crusher: A "Neuman" demolition charge, which explodes inward instead of outward. Used in a sphere, the Neuman charge might develop pressures of tens of thousands of tons per square inch at the center, perhaps enough to disintegrate an unstable atom such as uranium and release its explosive atomic energy. British scientists believe that such an explosion, though not far-reaching in area, would develop unheard-of violence at the point of impact...