atomic
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Many have expressed fears of an Orwellian-style forever war, or worse, the use of the atomic weapon invented “to end all wars” in a twisted attempt to do so, poisoning the region as a byproduct.
From Los Angeles Times
“We thought AI was like atomic energy,” Patrick Pichette, the chief financial officer, recalled.
After knocking out an electron from the neon atom using soft X-rays, they followed how the system evolved for up to a picosecond, which is extremely long on an atomic timescale, before the decay occurred.
From Science Daily
While effective in many cases, this design keeps the strongest optical fields away from the surface where atomically thin materials sit.
From Science Daily
In 1943 the Quebec Agreement formalized a collaboration between British and American scientists who would build the atomic bomb.
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