Word: atomizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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What, then?or who?was holding up the President's decision? If there were voices inside the Administration counseling against the H-bomb, they did not make their arguments public. Many a Washington correspondent pointed the finger at retiring Atom Boss David Lilienthal, who last week characterized all such stories about him as "inaccurate," but was careful?on security grounds?not to say just where he did stand...
Both men agreed that the bomb could never start the feared chain reaction in water that would blow up the oceans and finally the world. "The bomb uses heavy hydrogen," Oldenberg said, "and that occurs in only one atom...
Splitting the Atom...
...Communist states, whereas Stalin believes that a Communist state can be genuine only if dominated by Russia. The truth is that Tito would probably not hesitate to make satellites of Albania and Bulgaria, if he could apply superior power against them. What Tito has done is split the political atom - he has separated Communism and Soviet imperialism. But that does not mean that Soviet imperialists are not also Communists, nor that Yugoslav Communists are not also imperialists...
Medieval man knew of only four elements-earth, air, fire and water. By 1940, scientists knew of 92 elements-ranging from lightweight hydrogen, whose atom has only one electron, to heavy uranium, with 92 electrons. Many chemists thought that their long search for elements was ended, and then the University of California's powerful cyclotron got busy...