Word: atomize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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circa 1920: First atom split...
Professor Theodore Richards of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told his colleagues he split the atom. Twenty years later, many of the men responsible for the Manhattan Project left Cambridge for Los Alamos...
While sitting in the ashes and donning my sackcloth, I am contemplating the achievements of mankind. We split the atom, we walked on the moon, we invented every imaginable destructive weapon of war. Now there is a new rumbling in our midst presenting a different challenge: How do we tame an angry mountain...
...Patrolman Mancuso, who has been ordered by his chief to bring in at least one suspicious character. Donning the odd costumes he is forced to wear for the purpose of enticement, Mancuso constantly goes out and gets himself arrested. Much of the comedy in the novel is of the atom-smashing variety; people and props ricochet off each other into unforeseen trajectories. Ignatius' favorite work is Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy...
...solar power or other sources feasible, nuclear energy will remain necessary both to provide enough power and to control fuel costs. France has shown the way to safe and extensive use of nuclear energy. By the mid-1980s the country will be getting 55% of its electricity from the atom, as compared to 19% with...