Word: aec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...test was necessary, the AEC maintained, to assure that the Spartan system would provide a "thin shield" defense against nuclear attack from the Chinese. Some scientists argued, however, that ABM policy and technology has left the Spartan system behind, and the AEC is testing a warhead that would never be used as designed...
Fallout in Canada. Reaction elsewhere was less businesslike. Alaska's Governor William Egan declared that responsibility for any harm done to the Aleutian Islands (which with Japan and California are situated on the Circum-Pacific Girdle of Fire) should be borne by the AEC and the President. The Canadian government expressed a "deep sense of disquiet" and, like Egan, held the Administration accountable for any aftereffects that might be caused by the explosion. Taking a more direct approach, a Canadian group chartered a minesweeper, Greenpeace, Too, and sailed from Vancouver for Amchitka, where they intended to anchor outside...
...test continued. In one suit, 33 Congressmen sought to force public disclosure of the reports given to the President by environmental and other Government agencies. A Washington-based group called the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility has asked a court to enjoin the tests on the grounds that the AEC had not filed an adequate environmental-impact statement as required by law, and that the blast would damage the environment...
...detonated a large number of explosions," he pointed out. "No device ever generated an aftershock greater than the explosion itself." Only an aftershock ten to 30 times as great as the original explosion, he said, could cause an earthquake. The minute Schlesinger got the word from Nixon, AEC workers were set to work shoveling sand, gravel and cement into the Amchitka shaft, in the "stemming" operation that is supposed to seal the explosion off from any possibility of blowout...
...case, the Spartan warhead will be buried forever and lost. Not to worry. It only cost $200 million. And if anybody is concerned about just leaving it there, with all its potential nuclear power, it can be harmlessly destroyed by a small charge of TNT, which the AEC has already installed against just such a contingency...