Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is the "country"? Is it President Kennedy, the AEC, the American people, the Democratic majority, or what? I am part of this country, and I do not think testing is right. I think all the money, manpower and effort directed toward achieving bigger and better bombs should be expended instead toward achieving peace. I also think that war is useless, besides being an abomination, and now, in this nuclear age, suicidal as well...
...scientific director, William Elwood Ogle, wearing khaki shorts and a green aloha shirt, nodded to Joint Task Force 8's commander, Major General Alfred Dodd Starbird, a tough, tall (6 ft. 5 in.) veteran of atomic testing at Eniwetok and former chief of military applications for the AEC...
Laconic Statement. A special circuit carried the news to Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Glenn T. Seaborg in Washington. The AEC relayed the word to President Kennedy, then cruising on his yacht, the Honey Fitz, on Florida's Lake Worth. The President's casual surroundings were deliberate-they were part of a major U.S. policy decision to underplay the resumption of atmospheric tests...
Kennedy had no comment about the test, stood on the March 2 speech in which he explained why the U.S. felt the new series necessary. All that the U.S. Government had to say was contained in a laconic, one-paragraph statement from the AEC, which announced that the detonation had taken place at 10:45 a-m-E.S.T.. and was in the ''intermediate-yield range." Two days later, the U.S. fired a second shot, also in the "intermediate range." That term meant that the power of both explosions was of more than 20 kilotons, but less...
...Would Set Us Back." During the 1958-61 test moratorium, Ogle worked on the AEC's peaceful Project Rover, seeking development of nuclear rocket propulsion, and represented the AEC at Geneva test-ban talks. Returning to weapons research when President Kennedy ordered resumption of underground testing in Nevada, Ogle was recommended for the Christmas Island job by his longtime boss, Alvin Graves, test director at Los Alamos. (Graves has been one of the leading figures in nuclear testing, once was critically ill from exposure to a radiation dose of 200 roentgens; he recovered, but has been slowed down since...