“The utter wildness of the nineteen-fifties, a decade in which 100 new religions were formed, psychedelic drug experimentation was on an industrial scale, and vast scientific experiments outstripped science fiction, makes the sixties a wind-down.” — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“male workers were thought incapable of sitting still for hours at a time to do anything useful.” — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“However, in very low doses strychnine can act as a nerve stimulant, and I can see how Bailey, and most likely others, saw it… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“In general, nuclear workers are allowed to absorb 5 rem per year, and civilians are allowed 0.5 rem per year.” — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“it is correct to remind them of the British Blue Peacock nuclear weapon, in which the batteries were kept warm by two chickens living… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“Isotopes of radium, the first nuclear radiation sources to be commercially exploited, are probably the worst examples out of thousands of radioactive isotopes.” — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“It's a good thing we won the war. If we hadn't, I'd be hanged as a war criminal" -- Gen Curtis LeMay, quoted by… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“Seeing the value of publication shown by Röntgen’s disclosure, he wrote three articles for the Electrical Review in 1896 describing what it felt like… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“The Soviets were worried that the Americans would attack their "sparkling new Mir space station, ... in a space shuttle, throw out grappling hooks,… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“An arsenic compound is still used to treat promyelocytic leukemia, and the isotope arsenic-74 is used as a radioactive tracer to find tumors.” — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“Nuclear rockets capable of sending a fully equipped colony to Mars in one shot were designed.” — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
