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...??Staff writer Laura G. Mirviss can be reached at lmirviss@fas.harvard.edu...
According to History of Science Professor Everett Mendelsohn, who said he had supported the faculty petition, the concerns about testing were twofold. ??One was that the increased input of radiation into the atmosphere could be harmful,?? he said...
Physics Professor Roy J. Glauber ??45—who said he did not remember the faculty petition—also said that testing thermonuclear weapons could be dangerous...
...??The thermonuclear weapons were generally tested in the open air, and that was subjecting everybody downwind from them to the danger of fallout,?? he said. ??And when I say downwind I mean high altitude winds that carry the cloud clear around the globe several times.?...
According to Mendelsohn, ??the second and most compelling” argument for a test ban was that nuclear testing increased tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, which was also testing nuclear weapons at the time. Mendelsohn said each nation would respond to the other’s tests by trying to do something ??bigger or better.?...