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...Minute. Other knowledge has come from studying seismograph records of the U.S.'s great H-bomb tests in the Pacific in 1954. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission gave the seismologists no help at all, but Dr. Bullen figured out the exact times of all four blasts. Apparently the AEC is a creature of habit: it exploded all its H-bombs at an exact multiple of five minutes after 6 p.m. Greenwich mean time. According to Bullen's figuring, Test Bravo (which killed the Japanese fisherman with radioactive fallout) exploded at 45 minutes, zero seconds past...
...Toronto, Bullen renewed his plea for scientific explosions. This time he got a part of what he wanted. Dr. Willard F. Libby, scientist-commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, wired him that the AEC will explode this week a smallish atomic charge 800 ft. below the surface of a Nevada mountainside. Libby told the time (Sept. 14, 10 a.m. Eastern daylight-saving time) and place (North 890600 and East 635000 on the Nevada state grid system). If there is a delay of more than two minutes in firing the shot. the test will be postponed for 24 hours...
FAST TAX WRITE-OFFS will dry up soon. Senate Finance Committee approved measure to end write-offs altogether by Dec. 31, 1959, and to limit them until then to radically new or specialized production or research facilities for military services and AEC...
...PUBLIC-POWER DRIVE for harnessing atom will be pressed by Democrats in Congress. They want AEC to build and run $210 million worth of atomic power projects, thus set precedent for Government operation of atom plants for consumers. If program is blocked, Democrats threaten to stop some appropriations for AEC, hold up confirmation of newly named AECommissioners John Graham and John Floberg...
Clean Bombs. At his weekly news conference the President made two unexpected gestures of good will. Two weeks ago, he recalled, AEC Chairman Strauss and three top U.S. scientists had reported that U.S. H-bomb fallout has been reduced by 96%, and that, given more time and testing opportunities, they could be made 100% clean (TIME, July 8). Declared Ike: "If, ever under any circumstances," the U.S. makes another major H-bomb test, he would invite "any" other nation, including Russia, to visit the test site, "put its proper instruments in the air," and thus decide for itself the degree...