Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AEC classed the Chinese explosion as "weak," meaning its energy was equal to about 20 kilotons of chemical explosive. But only the testers themselves can now be sure whether the low power was intentional, to save precious fissionable material, or a result of poor design and construction. Radioactive particles collected by high-flying airplanes may soon provide an answer, however, for the particles prattle all sorts of secrets: whether the fissionable material used was plutonium or U-235; how much of it was wasted; whether an attempt was made to get fusion (hydrogen bomb) action...
Atomic Energy Commission asked the FBI to run a full field investigation because Jenkins would be handling atomic data in connection with L.B.J.'s work with the Senate Preparedness subcommittee. At that time, Jenkins was given a top-secret "Q" clearance, an AEC classification...
...AEC & Ph.D. Op artists often work in teams. Vasarely's son, yclept Yvaral, has helped him start the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel in Paris-six researchers who resemble the Atomic Energy Commission more than café-sitting artists. Germany boasts a group called Zero, begun in 1959 by three artists who hold Ph.D. degrees; they call for "new idealism" as opposed to the "new realism" of pop. The Italians have two op groups, the Gruppo N in Padua and the Gruppo T in Milan, which hopes to "codify visual phenomena, just as music was codified into...
More Plans than Money. Control Data's latest computer is its complicated 6600, which can execute 3,000,000 orders per second, is being installed in the AEC's Livermore, Calif., lab. Cost: $7,000,000. But the firm is gradually moving beyond purely scientific computers. Its most popular model is its high-speed 3600, a machine that averages $3,000,000 in price, is designed for data processing as well as for scientific problems. The 3600 will be used, for example, by West Germany to forecast weather, by Sears Roebuck to coordinate orders from 1,400 offices...
Both the Pentagon and the AEC are sure that no nuclear test has been exploded in space since the first detector satellites were tossed into orbit. Their instruments would have detected even a small (20 kilotons) explosion 100 million miles away and distinguished its effects from all kinds of natural radiation. This is believed to be a modest estimate of their capabilities. "How much better we can do now," said an AEC official, "we're not telling...