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"This plant makes all kinds of interesting stuff, mostly for aerospace companies and a certain east coast college that was rigging a twenty-mile-long atom-smasher—more on that later."
Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Dr. Tito Daka, a Japanese spy whose headquarters lie through a secret panel in the Japanese Cave of Horrors in deserted Little Tokyo, wants to secure enough radium for an "atom-smasher gun" that will bring America to its knees.
Erik Lundegaard: Batman (1943): Rounding Up the Shifty-Eyed Japs 2008
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The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.
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Professor Archibald Archie Masters, an astronomy professor at an unnamed university in the Eastern United States, created a device called an atom-smasher.
Archive 2008-03-01 Chuck Wells 2008
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The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Daka's minions keep trying to steal the necessary radium for the atom-smasher gun and Batman and Robin keep foiling them.
Erik Lundegaard: Batman (1943): Rounding Up the Shifty-Eyed Japs 2008
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The most powerful atom-smasher ever built will produce collisions of protons traveling at nearly the speed of light in the circular tunnel, giving off showers of particles that will provide more clues as to how everything in the universe is made.
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Zombies and an "atom-smasher gun" that prefigured our own atom bomb.
Erik Lundegaard: Batman and Robin (1949): Marching to a Bureaucratic Beat 2008
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Far and away the first thing that comes to mind when a person on the street hears “giant atom-smasher in Switzerland” is “might destroy the world.”
Live-Blogging the LHC Startup! Sean 2008
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The plot revolves around the usual improbable scientific device (see "atom-smasher gun" and "remote control machine") that, in the wrong hands, could take over the world.
Erik Lundegaard: Batman: The Movie (1966): Skewering our Cultural Pomposity 2008
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