Word: atomizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Harvard undergraduate is worrying about war. He is thinking about withdrawing from Korea; he is thinking about dropping an atom bomb; he is thinking about seating Communist China in the United Nations; and he is thinking about how the war affects...
...people to go to the Dominions. His argument, as expounded to the Council for a New Era of Emigration, is that mass emigration now would greatly strengthen the United Kingdom, especially if war should come. Britain's fundamental weakness, Airman Whittle believes, is its vulnerability through starvation if atom-bombed or blockaded. Declared Whittle of would-be emigrants: "They have felt they would be guilty of leaving a sinking ship, whereas the truth is that if they leave, the ship might not sink...
...amateur atom fans, a group of scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory offered last week a "continuous cloud chamber." Based on a ten-year-old but neglected idea, it is simple enough, say the Brookhaven men, to be built and operated by the teacher of a high-school science class...
Washington estimates that Russia has anywhere from five to 60 atom bombs; a favorite guess is 20-25. (Estimates about the U.S. atom bomb stockpile run from several hundred to "a small four figures.") It is certain that Russia's uranium ores are low-grade. A half-dozen or so deposits were discovered in 1944 in the Tashkent area of central Asia. The other main Soviet uranium source is northeast of Lake Baikal, in Siberia...
...Socialist housing plans. The minute splinter group abstained from two other votes, protesting against the Tory "practice of forcing a series of divisions purely for the sake of opposition, thereby artificially keeping in being a state of crisis." Cracked the Tory Daily Telegraph: "A unique case of splitting the atom without generating power...