September 2009
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word bank for 'ode to lisa'
the survey question was, “Please share the first word that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘nuclear.’”
activity
annihilation
apocalypse
armament
atom bomb
bomb
bomb
bomb
bomb
bomb
braids
Bush
cloud
core
destruction
disaster
energy
explosion
fallout
fission
fusion
holocaust
Manhattan
moment
option
poison
power
power
power
power
power
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July 2009
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“authority battery dictatorship electricity electricity energy energy...”
– Word Bank for the poem POWER, all responses to the fission kitchen survey Q: What word do you associate with POWER?
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April 2009
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the title track from Joe Pug’s Nation of...
March 2009
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TMI turns 30
About the accident at TMI that began thirty years ago yesterday, so many ways to release a sigh. But since breath and space hems into now, I offer a bit of what I’ve been reading and watching on this marked weekend.
The question in contention, still, as much now as then: how did the plant and the accident change the people and the environment in Lancaster County, PA? If you visit the links...
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ping pong in the desert
OUR FRIEND THE ATOM: In 1957, Walt Disney produced this film for his Tomorrowland series, and published a book by the same title. Disney’s “Chief Science Consultant,” Heinz Haber stars in the film, casting fission as a genie in a bottle, dusting up “like the simoom of the desert”…a poison wind.
In Haber’s animated lesson, a nuclear chain reaction is a...
“Fermi raised his hand. ‘The pile has gone critical,’ he...”
– Arthurt Compton’s account of the first nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago on December 2, 1942. Later, a history of the Manhattan Project, sponsored by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, would bear the title The New World.
a flight
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the language of unanimity
EINSTEIN’S MONSTERS: Martin Amis protests nuclear proliferation in this sheath of five stories + one essay. I’ve found shivery currency in ‘The Little Puppy That Could,’ a post-apocalyptic fable of a huge homovorous canine, the town it preys upon, and a lovable homing puppy who - biblically, delectably, predictably? - slays the beast.
Amis sidles up to the bomb, imagining...
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February 2009
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