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  • Did they drop the atom bomb?†   (source)
  • She longs to touch him, but she hesitates: surely if she were to take him in her arms he would blur, then dissolve, into shreds of cloth, into smoke, into molecules, into atoms.†   (source)
  • Another, written the previous November, around the time he and anniebellcheers stopped replying to each other on Twitter: "By convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color, but in reality atoms and void."†   (source)
  • The atmosphere reminded me of a book I had read in junior high about a boy who was the only survivor of an atomic bomb and had to rely on his wits to survive.†   (source)
  • Hydrogen atom frequency at 1,420 MHz†   (source)
  • Do you know that when they set off the atomic bomb for the first time, during the Manhattan Project, the physicists running the show had a bet going whether it would ignite the atmosphere?†   (source)
  • We develop an atom bomb, you develop an atom bomb.†   (source)
  • She would set about parsing the constraint down to its atoms, and try to eke a way through.†   (source)
  • He was engaged in a passionate discussion with a handful of young men about an anti–atomic bomb demonstration in April.†   (source)
  • Atomic bombs.†   (source)
  • He asks questions about atoms and clouds, about fish and mammals, about famous religions and dead presidents.†   (source)
  • The edge an atom thick.†   (source)
  • "There's atoms, which is things that is too small to see, that's what we're all made of.†   (source)
  • When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?†   (source)
  • Because time is only the relationship between the way different things change, like the earth going round the sun and atoms vibrating and clocks ticking and day and night and waking up and going to sleep, and it is like west or nor-nor-east, which won't exist when the earth stops existing and falls into the sun because it is only a relationship between the North Pole and the South Pole and everywhere else, like Mogadishu and Sunderland and Canberra.†   (source)
  • What is the atomic weight of lead?†   (source)
  • Some were from modern times-an atomic bomb exploding over a city, a trench filled with gas mask-wearing soldiers, a line of African famine victims waiting with empty bowls-but all of them looked as if they'd been etched into the bronze thousands of years ago.†   (source)
  • He took first shot and killed about thirty of mine with an atomic bomb.†   (source)
  • By the end of this decade, it will have outdistanced atomic power and computers in its effect on our everyday lives.†   (source)
  • What soothed me about the way she talked in those days was the simple truth of it, as if we'd finally found the basic atoms of things, hard as they were.†   (source)
  • Until recently antimatter has been created only in very small amounts (a few atoms at a time).†   (source)
  • By adding microscopic layers, a few thousand atoms every month, each atop the next.†   (source)
  • In the silence that had slammed down after the 4th Wave struck, the report of the rounds sounded louder than an atomic blast.†   (source)
  • Right before the Cultural Revolution, the picture had been of a huge mushroom cloud from an atomic explosion, with a tiny big-nosed American trembling in the corner.†   (source)
  • Or how about a linear accelerator, just a small one so I can split a few atoms?†   (source)
  • It's a purely natural process happening at the atomic level.†   (source)
  • They seemed to be going haywire, colliding with one another like excited atoms.†   (source)
  • When I returned to the house that day, it was as if somebody had dropped an atomic bomb.†   (source)
  • The general in charge of the Manhattan Project was Leslie Groves, and he scoured the country, trying to find the right person to lead the atomic-bomb effort.†   (source)
  • About the atom bomb?†   (source)
  • We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022!†   (source)
  • Instead he told her about Henrietta's cells being used for the polio vaccine and genetic research; he said they'd gone up in early space missions and been used in atomic bomb testing.†   (source)
  • In fact, it didn't need to touch the water at all, because it was supported on a hazy cushion of ionized atoms, but just for effect it was fitted with thin finblades which could be lowered into the water.†   (source)
  • The field growing and growing, the molecules bursting apart but finding nowhere for the separate atoms to go.†   (source)
  • "And give him turbo-atomic rocket boosters," said George.†   (source)
  • I asked Xandra one evening when she was in the kitchen unwrapping the night's plastic tray of Atomic Wings and blue cheese dip.†   (source)
  • And God created the whole universe from an atom no bigger than a thought.†   (source)
  • I think if I could just find the moment, I could take it apart piece by piece, molecule by molecule, until I got down to the atomic level, until I got to the part that was inviolate and essential.†   (source)
  • The group had an atomic structure: a nucleus of nuts surrounded by darting, nervous nurse-electrons charged with our protection.†   (source)
  • Mother and I watched him, expecting the dreaded atomic blowup.†   (source)
  • He didn't know what a cell was, or an atom.†   (source)
  • Did Saddam actually own the completed article, a finely tuned atomic bomb or missile?†   (source)
  • The Moonlighting episode called "Atomic Shakespeare" was one of the funniest and most inventive on a show that was consistently funny and inventive.†   (source)
  • Through the years he took his stopped watches to "the One who set the atoms dancing," or "who keeps the great currents circling through the sea."†   (source)
  • Carrying a whole lot of atomic weight.†   (source)
  • The Russians had built atomic and hydrogen bombs, and they had jet bombers that could reach the United States.†   (source)
  • In some places, the hypercards are placed in precise geometric patterns, like atoms in a crystal.†   (source)
  • The four-and-a-half-acre underground complex was designed to survive a direct hit by an atomic bomb.†   (source)
  • The impact of a four-ton pickup truck going sixty miles an hour plowing straight into the passenger side had the force of an atom bomb.†   (source)
  • Or is it some inert element in the air we breathe, a rare thing like neon, with a melting point, an atomic weight?†   (source)
  • We have electron microscopes that can see individual atoms.†   (source)
  • If you figured out a way to bring yourself to another time, probably through some sort of teleportation—you'd be somehow re-creating your atoms, really, not physically moving them, I'm guessing; that would be tricky…."†   (source)
  • Even the room felt restive: The afternoon sun lit up an atomic flurry of dust motes.†   (source)
  • Glass turned slowly, every atom in her body turning to ice.†   (source)
  • " "And who could tell after the blast if the explosion wasn't atomic?" he asked.†   (source)
  • Within that context of thought, ghosts and spirits are quite as real as atoms, particles, photons and quants are to a modern man.†   (source)
  • America's a brave new Atomic world and the South's just beginning its Industrial Revolution.†   (source)
  • Like the Flatlands Society, the Rosicrucians, or the Corlies of Arizona, who are positive that the atomic bomb does not work, these unfortunates are flying in the face of logic with their heads in the sand-and beg your pardon for the mixed metaphor.†   (source)
  • The last hope that something might postpone our returning to the outside world was extinguished on August 6 when the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • It just didn't feel right-as if some critical mass were missing, and they were likely to be split apart like an atom under pressure.†   (source)
  • He told me the story with passionate anger, uttering the remarkable epithet: "The only thing that could ever straighten out this screwed-up country is an atomic bomb!†   (source)
  • This quality involves a sense of the self so profound and so powerful that it does not so much leap barriers as reduce them to atoms—while still leaving them standing, mightily, where they were; and this awful sense is private, unknowable, not to be articulated, having, literally, to do with something else; it transforms and lays waste and gives life, and kills.†   (source)
  • What happened in Sudan could be compared to the secret detonation of an atomic bomb.†   (source)
  • All of this she did very slowly and deliberately, as if she were splitting atoms.†   (source)
  • His on-thescene reportage of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was incredible.†   (source)
  • They circled the twisted, scarred Atomic Dome.†   (source)
  • Every atom of me missed him.†   (source)
  • The bomb didn't detonate during the crash, of course, because atomic weapons don't work that way.†   (source)
  • The echo seemed to shake the very atoms of his being.†   (source)
  • The Japanese in Nanking killed even more than the atomic bombs later would.†   (source)
  • There's something odd about vampire atoms, which means all that comes out on film is a dark blur.†   (source)
  • Then Damien's eyes go wide like he's just discovered the atom or the concept of self-pleasure.†   (source)
  • We were doing the molecular structure of atoms and how they vibrate.†   (source)
  • We were supposed to be studying, but Lena was writing in her notebook, and I'd read the same paragraph about the internal structure of atoms nine times now.†   (source)
  • I pressed my body to her, feeling every atom in me come to a point.†   (source)
  • Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented.†   (source)
  • While we were there, America destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs, and the war with Japan came to an end.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the frequency of the human voice did something to the tiny atomic substances, such as happened when the famous operatic soprano Dame Ariadne Stretch broke a glass by singing at it?†   (source)
  • In the course of the day Figuerola's team had interviewed a number of people now retired from the Swedish Atomic Energy Agency.†   (source)
  • I am an atom of intellect with millions of solar systems over my head, under my feet, on my right hand, on my left, before me, and my adoration of the intelligence that contrived and the power that rules the stupendous fabric is too profound to believe them capable of anything unjust or cruel.†   (source)
  • And she tried, with every atom she could muster, to blank her mind of all comparison and lose herself in the familiar contours of his mouth and its familiar taste and smell and the familiar cradling of his hand on her breast.†   (source)
  • In the wake of the gunshot's echo, the silence settling down through the house seemed as deadly as the invisible and weightless rain of atomic radiation in the sepulchral stillness following nuclear thunder.†   (source)
  • Inside, I was spinning apart, as if the pieces of my atoms were reversing polarity and blowing away from one another.†   (source)
  • He knows no more than they do about total reality--less, if anything: works with the same old clutter of atoms, the givens of his time and place and tongue.†   (source)
  • Worse still, you don't show an atom of shame or remorse.†   (source)
  • You know: war, concentration camps, gas ovens, atom bomb, all that stuff.†   (source)
  • I want you to take a moment and listen to the beating of your heart, feel its energy Now I want you to feel the energy in this room, the atoms and molecules buzzing in the air.†   (source)
  • And she was on the ship again with her father, with Valentine, and she was throwing everything she had, every bit of strength, every last atom of will and energy into crafting a rune, a rune that would burn down the world, that would reverse death, that would make the oceans fly up into the sky.†   (source)
  • Khrushchev also knows quite well that the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had an explosive force equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT.†   (source)
  • The earth is only an atom whirling in the universe-of what importance is that bridge to the solar system?†   (source)
  • The exercise will be programmed as if an atom bomb had exploded and incendiary and high-powered bombs had rained down on the entire amusement area.†   (source)
  • The cloud could burst, and a rain of atom bombs could destroy millions of lives, including my own.†   (source)
  • Alessandro felt every atom of the cool night air.†   (source)
  • Narrowing his eyes, he blends everything to gray—the curtains, the walls painted with huge, atomic grapevines and leaves, the dark, gorilla-like man across the table from him.†   (source)
  • But then, his job at the cyclotron is very important, since they're always smashing atoms up there and things.†   (source)
  • In other words, a finite thing can be divided an infinite number of times, down to even the minutest atom.†   (source)
  • El is the sister I've never had, and I love her with every atom of my self.†   (source)
  • Or simply consider this story: locked inside the nucleus of each little invisible atom is a force so vast it can destroy an entire city!†   (source)
  • Mike's "head" works faster; he answered, "The concussion of a hundred-tonne mass on Terra approaches the yield of a two-kilotonne atomic bomb."†   (source)
  • Where once Langley and the Office had worked handin-glove to sabotage Iran's nuclear ambitions, the United States, under the deal's provisions, was now sworn to protect what remained of Tehran's atomic infrastructure.†   (source)
  • "So…. two weight of atomic level circuitry to one weight of Dragon's Tears," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • Instead he stood in front of her empty desk in the evening, after everyone had gone home, and touched her things — her typewriter, her scissors, her pencil cup, her blotter — as if trying to coax them into yielding up what somewhere in their atoms they had to know.†   (source)
  • Ku'oosh would have looked at the dismembered corpses and the atomic heat-flash outlines, where human bodies had evaporated, and the old man would have said something close and terrible had killed these people.†   (source)
  • Then the nightmare would end in a bang when the Russians dropped an atomic bomb.†   (source)
  • And only the Japanese have personal understanding of atomic heat and radiation.†   (source)
  • But you mustn't act like the atomic bomb has fallen on you.†   (source)
  • Atomic?†   (source)
  • He don't even use an atomic ray gun.†   (source)
  • A deadly force was to be employed, atomic energy, to release an even more powerful phenomenon, live magma, which seethed and bubbled now miles beneath the sea itself.†   (source)
  • The "teenager," like the atomic bomb, was still uninvented, and there were few concessions to adolescence, but the change to long pants was a ritual of recognition.†   (source)
  • He had never served in an atomic-powered ship, and as much of the equipment was classified for security a great deal of it was novel to him.†   (source)
  • But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course -- both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.†   (source)
  • "Oh, those," she comes back in, kisses me, and says quite lightly, "in a couple of years when we'll all be atom-dead they won't matter a bit."†   (source)
  • "Matter is gathered into aggregates ranging in size from the smallest atom to the largest collection of matter known to astronomers," "What is the largest collection of matter known to astronomers?"†   (source)
  • She was beautiful the way an atomic explosion is beautiful.†   (source)
  • And there's things that's smaller than atoms, and that's particle physics."†   (source)
  • Substance relates to the form of the atom.†   (source)
  • "These dinosaurs been droppin' atom bombs on each other.†   (source)
  • Its chief rule prohibits the use of atomic weapons against human targets.†   (source)
  • (For the record, the Hiroshima atom bomb was a thousand times more powerful.)†   (source)
  • PATSY is an acronym for Photo-Atomic TransSomgobulating Yectofantriplutoniczanziptomiser.†   (source)
  • Each molecule of hydrazine has four hydrogen atoms in it.†   (source)
  • You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself?†   (source)
  • "Our Friend the Atom" was sponsored by General Dynamics, a manufacturer of nuclear reactors.†   (source)
  • The realizations continued to detonate in my brain like atomic bombs going off, one after another.†   (source)
  • Every atom in his body was focused on praying to whatever forgotten god might be listening.†   (source)
  • KNO3 The same as potassium chlorate except it has a potassium atom instead of a chlorine one.†   (source)
  • This 'primeval atom' exploded because of the enormous gravitation.†   (source)
  • Have you ever seen the atom bomb mushroom from two hundred miles up?†   (source)
  • Our interests lie with an atom's nucleus-a mere ten-thousandth the size of the whole.†   (source)
  • It was an enormous undertaking, as big as the Manhattan Project, which made the atomic bomb.†   (source)
  • We've mastered the energy of the atom and reached the Information Age."†   (source)
  • But atomic weapons then appeared within a very short period.†   (source)
  • Remember, there is no other reason on this earth to want uranium-235 except to make an atom bomb.†   (source)
  • And genetic power is far more potent than atomic power.†   (source)
  • Atoms look like planets compared to what we deal with.†   (source)
  • The company also financed the atomic submarine ride at Disneyland's Tomorrowland.†   (source)
  • A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk.†   (source)
  • He even went to the American Imperialists and helped them build the atom bomb!†   (source)
  • Particle physics is the study of atoms, isn't it?†   (source)
  • America entered the atomic age through the work of a single research institution, at Los Alamos.†   (source)
  • THE ATOM THEORY Here I am again, Sophie.†   (source)
  • He developed the pleasure ethic of Aristippus and combined it with the atom theory of Democritus.†   (source)
  • But to go from the Industrial Age to the Atomic Age took only two hundred Earth years.†   (source)
  • Fifty years ago, everyone was gaga over the atomic bomb.†   (source)
  • A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.†   (source)
  • Recent examples include the appearance of atomic weapons.†   (source)
  • In this connection, the atom theory of Democritus was a useful cure for religious superstitions.†   (source)
  • It had reached the Atomic Age and the Information Age.†   (source)
  • The atom theory also explains our sense perception, thought Democritus.†   (source)
  • If it succeeds, the result will be even more important than the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb.†   (source)
  • Today we can establish that Democritus' atom theory was more or less correct.†   (source)
  • Democritus's atom theory marked the end of Greek natural philosophy for the time being.†   (source)
  • When I see the moon, it is because "moon atoms" penetrate my eye.†   (source)
  • Democritus believed that nature consisted of an unlimited number and variety of atoms.†   (source)
  • Democritus called these smallest units atoms.†   (source)
  • Democritus believed that the soul was made up of special round, smooth "soul atoms."†   (source)
  • Nature really is built up of different "atoms" that join and separate again.†   (source)
  • Surely that could not consist of atoms, of material things?†   (source)
  • According to Democritus, there is no conscious "design" in the movement of atoms.†   (source)
  • He had only believed in atoms and empty space.†   (source)
  • The only things that existed, he believed, were atoms and the void.†   (source)
  • Also, he believed that all atoms were firm and solid.†   (source)
  • They have more or less the same properties as those which Democritus ascribed to atoms.†   (source)
  • When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space.†   (source)
  • Democritus called these smallest units atoms.†   (source)
  • But how could the soul be made of atoms?†   (source)
  • According to him, souls were built up of atoms that are spread to the winds when people die.†   (source)
  • To this end Epicurus made use of Democritus's theory of the "soul atoms.†   (source)
  • The sounds of assault rifles and atom bombs got louder in Frank's head.†   (source)
  • When the tremor stopped, Camp Half-Blood looked like a wasteland after an atomic blast.†   (source)
  • But the atomic bombing, if anything, just sharpened our worry.†   (source)
  • What had happened to me here was permanent, a part of the very atoms that made up my small body.†   (source)
  • It's around me, lock set, like the atoms of a crystal.†   (source)
  • This jug is an absolute democracy of atoms.†   (source)
  • The atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 71,379 people.†   (source)
  • You're the fellow who catches atoms or something.†   (source)
  • If the whole floor is contaminated, it will seal off, and the atomic device will cut in.†   (source)
  • The diagram of the atom has a nucleus, with electrons circling it.†   (source)
  • Part of this hospital was especially for those with the atom bomb sickness.†   (source)
  • But Darwin's theory was put forth in 1859, before we had any knowledge of atomic structure.†   (source)
  • The Greeks of the fifth century B. C. proposed the idea of the atom.†   (source)
  • Might you look through and discover our entire universe is but part of one atom on a blade of grass?†   (source)
  • Of course, that was an attack on Washington using a late '40s 10 KT atom bomb.†   (source)
  • Then you admit that you did use atomic weapons!†   (source)
  • "This is the atom that's going to be on the exam, so you'd better learn it," I say to Cordelia.†   (source)
  • Never mind the energy packed in the atom.†   (source)
  • It is imperative: no atomic device must be detonated around the organisms.†   (source)
  • The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons.†   (source)
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