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Word: hottentot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1961-1961
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...getting fissionable material by centrifuge (TIME, Oct. 24), the cost of a nuclear blast can be scaled down to the poor nation's level. Says Physicist Herman Kahn: "With the kind of technology that is likely to be available in 1969, it may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and technical Hottentot it is true, would be able to make bombs." Added a U.S. atomic-energy official: "The cat's out of the bag now and I see no way to put it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Atom: Into the Open | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

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