atomic
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Or Harry Truman, who demonstrated character when he took responsibility for the use of atomic weapons, refusing to deflect blame amid global controversy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026
“I don’t think the gap will be the same as the Manhattan Project,” he said, referring to the scramble to build the first atomic bomb.
From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026
In our models assuming that spacetime cells exist, the strong and weak nuclear forces, which hold atomic nuclei together, also leave traces in spacetime.
From Science Daily • Jun. 18, 2026
Well, when it was founded in 1945 the technology that could end civilization, at least globally, was nuclear atomic weapons, and that’s what the scientists who founded the Bulletin were concerned about.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2026
Another philosophy vied with the atomic theory, and instead of posing such bizarre concepts as the infinite vacuum, it turned the universe into a cozy nutshell.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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