Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Fortnight ago word leaked out that another nation had joined the U.S., Britain, Russia and France in the world's select little club of atomic powers. But which? Some said Sweden. But last week the London Daily Express reported that the new member of the club is Israel. The story was diplomatically denied by Israel, but the word in Washington is that Israel indeed has begun to produce fissionable material-although it is still a considerable way from producing an atom bomb...
First speculation was that the nth power was Red China, which has recently been boasting that it would have its own atom bomb in a matter of months. But knowledgeable sources in Washington declared that the nation was neither of the Communist nor the NATO bloc...
...elect John Kennedy. This had all the earmarks of a calculated leak designed to con the West into accepting Khrushchev as its favorite Communist. So did the report that Chairman Liu had boasted that his country now has four nuclear reactors in operation and will soon explode its first atom bomb. Once again, Moscow appeared to be trying to use the threat of China's nuclear potential to disarm the West, while simultaneously telling Peking that with just a few years' patience Communism could peacefully attain absolute military and economic superiority over the West...
...direct observation, but long periscopes, manipulated through a 3-in. opening in the blanket around the core, gave a clear view of the melted spots. All these lights, probes and gauges had to be specially designed, and they were tested on an accurate mockup of the reactor before the atom-age repair crew dared to tackle the real...
Typical of such decisions were the choice in England and the United States to start work on the atom bomb, and the choices in the U.S. and Russia about intercontinental missiles. Snow's "parable," however, concerned the secret decision made in 1935 in England to develop radar...