All 7 Uses
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Hiroshima, by John Hersey
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- The rays simply destroyed body cells — caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls.
Chpt 4 *nuclei = centers
- Long before the American public had been told, most of the scientists and lots of nonscientists in Japan knew — from the calculations of Japanese nuclear physicists that a uranium bomb had exploded at Hiroshima and a more powerful one, of plutonium, at Nagasaki.†
Chpt 4nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
- ON February 13, 1960, France tested a nuclear weapon in the Sahara.†
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- On October 16, 1964, China carried out its first nuclear test, and on June 17, 1967, it exploded a hydrogen bomb.†
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- In 1960, it had tried to block revision of the United States-Japanese Security Treaty, on the ground that it encouraged a renewed militarism in Japan, whereupon some more conservative groups formed Kakkin Kaigi, the National Council for Peace and against Nuclear Weapons.†
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- ON May 18, 1974, India conducted its first nuclear test.†
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- The surviving hibakusha had been polled by Chugoku Shimhun in 1984, and 54.3 per cent of them said they thought that nuclear weapons would be used again.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(nucleus) the center (or most important part) of somethingsuch as:
- in physics: the center of an atom where protons & neutrons are found
- in biology: the center of a cell where DNA is found
- in sociology: the closest family (mother/father/children in contrast to the extended family)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)