atomic

Yet nearly everything we can detect today is matter built from protons and neutrons inside atomic nuclei.

In 2002, INR dissented from the prevailing intelligence-community view that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program to build an atomic weapon.

So the repeating tom-tom pulse in “No Reply,” when paired with his half-spoken delivery, brings to mind a digital grid mapped to an atomic clock where every element is locked into place.

It’s just one part of a football field’s worth of technology where cells are explored at the atomic level.

This came as the Truman administration had just been shouted down by domestic and foreign opposition to a short-lived attempt to hand control of atomic weapons to the United Nations.