“I’m thinking she might have used some Yiddish expression not understood by the Journo-Lister from Politico.”
Actually, it is, I believe, a word the Jewish scientists who worked on nuclear science before and during the development of atomic energy to describe an exponential chain reaction, so your idea makes sense.
>>Actually, it is, I believe, a word the Jewish scientists who worked on nuclear science before and during the development of atomic energy to describe an exponential chain reaction<<
Interesting.
Would like to review your source for this.