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...succeeded because he chose the right target, an atom of an extremely rare form of uranium (U 235), which he bombarded with a stream of neutrons. The explosion which occurred when the uranium atom finally split was, proportionately, the greatest man-made blast in history; it released 200 million electron-volts. But because the source and volume were so small, the shock was not enough to knock a fly off the wall. As war overtook the world, the problem of releasing atomic energy in quantity, as for a bomb, still remained unsolved...
...blamed the East Coast's rain on a northward migration (to a point off New York) of the eastern high pressure area, known to weathermen as the "Bermuda high," that usually lies off the Carolinas. That brought southeast winds, dripping with moisture picked up from the hot Gulf Stream and the Caribbean. Annoyed with vagrant Bermuda highs, the New York Times decided that they are "an invention of the devil and should be abolished." But the devil was still at it-keeping green the memory of a long-departed saint...
Long lines of tankers once fanned out from Aruba to Europe, the U.S. and Pacific. Now, almost all of Aruba's and South America's refinery production of 750,000 barrels of oil a day is going through the Panama Canal to the Pacific; only a thin stream of crude is going north...
...flames ate into the dry planking, roared toward the bow. Captain Horace Beaton gave orders to cast off. Slowly the burning ship backed out into the stream, slid away from the burning dock, moved forward again and drove sharp against the river bank...
...tool (until now a military secret) is a tube which looks like a pea shooter. It has a waterproofed electrode which heats metal electrically to 6,000-10,000° F., and a jet which shoots a stream of pure oxygen, slicing rapidly through the molten plate...