Use java's AtomicReference to back atoms. Add compare-and-set-entity! in to the platform.

I think a test like...

```clojure
(defn sleep-and-return [len value]
  (do
    (Thread/sleep len)
    value)) 

(testing "failing to update an atom"
  (let [atm (atom "foo")
         first-update (Thread. (swap! atm sleep-and-return 1000 "first"))
         second-update (Thread. (swap! atm sleep-and-return 100 "second"))]
      (Thread/sleep 1000)
      (is (= "second" (deref atm)))))
```

would work but it's super brittle and you probably don't want it in the main test suite.
Thoughts?