Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...combining both infra-red (heat-seeking) and radar-homing techniques. The Gabriel hunts down its target at such low levels that it becomes coated with sea spray on long flights. Washington is particularly interested in the fact that the new missile seems to be eminently capable of delivering a nuclear warhead...
Threshold Nations. Many diplomats feel that an even more alarming possibility is the effect the Chinese nuclear capability may have on the world's secondary powers. At least nine nations have the wealth and expertise to develop a nuclear bomb. The peaceful use of nuclear energy has, ironically, given them both the know-how and material for making bombs; nuclear reactors used for generating electricity produce many pounds of plutonium, the explosive material in H-bombs. Among these threshold nations are Australia, Canada, West Germany, Italy, Sweden and perhaps South Africa. At a cost of $1 billion...
...millionths of an ounce of a heavy, man-made isotope. The "bullets" were even smaller -atomic nuclei fired by an atom smasher. But the results of the experiment which were reported last week at a Washington meeting of the American Physical Society, made big news in the world of nuclear physics. A new chemical element, No. 105, has been created and identified...
Chemical Revolution. Ghiorso, Nuclear Chemist James Harris, Finnish Physicists Matti Nurmia and Kari Eskda, the same team that discovered element 104, suggested that the new element be named hahnium, in honor of Otto Hahn, the German chemist who in 1938 discovered nuclear fission. Ghiorso also took the occasion to disagree with a prior-and tentative -claim by Russian physicists that they had discovered element 105. The Lawrence team, he explained, had been unable to duplicate the Russian experiment, which used less sensitive equipment and produced uncertain results...
...Chicago, Commonwealth Edison's annual meeting turned into a debate over pollution. The Rev. Leonard Dubi, a Catholic priest, led a band of 70 proxy-holding protesters and peremptorily gave directors one hour to answer their demands. They called for a halt in the construction of a nuclear power station to avoid thermal pollution of Lake Michigan, and for faster action to reduce the sulfur content of coal that the utility burns. Dubi and his followers then left the hall, thus missing a report by Commonwealth Edison President Thomas G. Ayers outlining plans to cut sulfur emissions around Chicago...