If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.
Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
The works I made at the start of my career rely on the themes of war, atomic power, and outer space.
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes – except that there were no ashes.
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.
Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions.
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
To us, mastering the atomic fuel cycle and generating nuclear power is as much about diversifying our energy resources as it is about who Iranians are as a nation, our demand for dignity and respect, and our consequent place in the world.
It’s illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions – ‘electricity too cheap to meter’ was the atomic promise of the 1950s.
Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs).
You know, the ‘Atomic Blonde’ universe is its own universe. There’s influences obviously of Bond and Bourne and ‘Wick,’ all the things I’ve been exposed to, but it is its own universe.
In the spring of 1948, I was able to join the newly created Brookhaven National Laboratory, which was dedicated to finding peaceful uses for atomic energy.
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