Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...home in London's fashionable Kensington, Antonia Pakenham Fraser Pinter is a composition by Gainsborough. Her English skin would make peaches weep in their cream. Blue eyes seem to savor a secret, shared but not revealed. She is tall, not willowy but womanly, and at 57 she is, by any standard, beautiful...
Activists of the Azerbaijan Popular Front in Nakhichevan, a region bordering Iran, made no secret of their preparations for an incendiary New Year's Eve. They stockpiled axes, shovels and wire cutters, assembled trucks and buses, and held rallies demanding the dismantling of frontier barriers that separate them from Azerbaijanis living in Iran. On the last day of 1989 they struck. A mob of some 7,500 tore up boundary markers and pulled down border posts and watchtowers. Similar attacks over the next two days spread along 500 miles of the border, crippling the communications network in a string...
...account is a top-secret history of the H-bomb written by Hans Bethe in 1952 and only recently declassified. According to Bethe, who headed the theoretical-physics division at Los Alamos during World War II, Teller's design began to fall apart shortly after Truman launched his H-bomb program. Teller's idea had been to use the heat of a conventional A-bomb to ignite a separate H-bomb. But Ulam, a brilliant mathematician, made a series of calculations that showed that the amount of tritium fuel required for Teller's bomb was prohibitive and that even when...
...Fuchs did not give the Soviets the secret of the Teller-Ulam bomb, who did? Hirsch and Mathews suggest that Teller himself may have inadvertently - assisted the Soviets by pushing for an early test blast. The 1952 explosion peppered the atmosphere with a telltale assortment of radioactive debris, including new atomic elements that could have been created only by a compressed fusion reaction. When Hirsch and Mathews asked Bethe if that fallout could have tipped off the Soviets, Bethe instantly said yes. Says Hirsch: "It was as though he had been waiting 35 years for someone to ask him that...
...from the surviving members of the Los Alamos team. Carson Mark, who took over for Bethe in 1947, concedes that the U.S. monitored the Soviets' weapons research by examining the fallout from their blasts, but he doubts that the U.S.S.R. could have worked in the other direction, deducing the secret of Mike's construction by studying its debris. Teller and others believe that the late Andrei Sakharov, who built the Soviet H-bomb, was clever enough to have invented the device from scratch, without the help of Fuchs or anyone else...