Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientist hammered hardest at ex-AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss (now Secretary of Commerce) and ex-AEC Consultant Edward Teller. Strauss and Teller, said the Science Advisory Committee spokesman, are "radicals . . . extremists of one viewpoint." He stressed the point that the Science Advisory Committee's now dominant voices, e.g., Killian, Columbia University's Dr. I. I. Rabi, base their stop-the-tests stand on purely technical, nonpolitical grounds. But he went on to say that Science Advisory Committee members feel that test stoppage, all science aside, will bring the "reduction of tensions," and "hope of a world that does...
...illusions of progress toward negotiated disarmament got a sudden jolt. In Washington, the Atomic Energy Commission announced that the Soviet Union had set off two nuclear explosions since the start of the Geneva conference. The explosions, "both of relatively low yield," took place in southern Russia, said AEC, rather than at the Arctic site "where most of the tests in recent weeks have been held." President Eisenhower promptly issued a statement notifying the world that "this action by the Soviet Union relieves the U.S. from any obligation under its offer to suspend nuclear-weapons tests." The U.S. would continue...
...Geiger counters showed a steady rise in the atmosphere's radioactivity level. At midweek a brisk high-altitude wind, blowing from Nevada, brought radioactivity from a test shot above normal safety levels, sent Health Officer Uhl round to see Los Angeles' Mayor Norris Poulson. Poulson phoned the AEC in Washington, finally got through to AECommissioner Willard Libby, was assured that 1) the fallout level was not dangerous at all; 2) the Nevada test series was almost complete...
...newspaper offices. TV studios. Scientists passed out the word. "No danger to anyone.'' said U.C.L.A.'s Nuclear Medicine Expert Dr. Thomas Hennessey. "I don't think the public's mind should be relieved." said U.S.C.'s Biochemistry Professor Dr. Paul Saltman. And when AEC said later that it hoped to conduct one more test shot in Nevada the next night, weather permitting, Mayor Poulson blew up: "We don't like to be talked to like children! If they shoot that, last shot, there will be repercussions!" AEC called off that, last shot because...
Upshot of Los Angeles' worrisome week was that the city's 6,000.000. to hear AEC tell it. had been exposed in six hours to roughly the amount of radioactivity that they would normally receive from the atmosphere in 24 hours. Radioactively speaking, L.A. had thus lived two days in one. But the L.A. radioactivity reading was possibly the highest radioactivity level ever recorded in the continental U.S. outside the test grounds. The miracle of it was that, with all the scare headlines, radio and TV broadcasts, the citizenry had taken it as calmly...