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...would resume its own tests underground. "We must now take those steps which prudent men find essential," he declared. "We have no other choice in fulfillment of the responsibilities of the United States Government to its own citizens and to the security of other free nations." Directed by AEC Chairman Glenn T. Seaborg, underground tests in Nevada were scheduled to start within a few days...
With the test program on his mind, President Kennedy met with white-haired John McCone, AEC chairman under Dwight Eisenhower, a longtime advocate of testing and the man who foresightedly had ordered the tunnels to be dug into Nevada mountains just in case the ban broke down. Now chairman of a Los Angeles steel corporation, McCone was invited to the White House to speak his mind -and, for an hour and a quarter, he did just that. McCone approved Kennedy's decision to resume testing, urged the President not to declare himself against atmospheric tests, since "outer-space tests...
...Thursday ranking officials arrived at the White House-Rusk. Dulles, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, AEC Chairman Glenn Seaborg, Cold War Adviser Maxwell Taylor, U.S. Information Agency Chief Edward R. Murrow. At 12:45 p.m., Kennedy issued a second statement calling the Soviet announcement "atomic blackmail." Declared the President: "What the Soviet Union is obviously testing is not only nuclear devices but the will and determination of the free world to resist such tactics and to defend freedom.'' The President stated he was confident that the present U.S. nuclear stockpile was capable of defending the free world, once again...
Strontium 90 is the notorious element in fallout that masquerades as calcium and lodges in human bones. But it is plentiful in the byproducts of plutonium manufacture, and the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, taking careful precautions, decided to use it. It was converted into strontium titanate, which is chemically inert and virtually insoluble, then formed into eleven pellets and welded into a three-layer jacket. All this had to be done by remote control from behind thick radiation shields-or the operators would not have lived to do more work...
...important things afoot. The number of employees of Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co., which supplies nonscientist help, has jumped to 1,600 from 878 in 1960. Total employment at the site is now about 2,500. On the great barren area (40 miles by 30 miles), the AEC is testing a nuclear rocket engine, Project Rover, and a nuclear ramjet, Project Pluto (so far non-explosively), is also using chemical explosives to make studies of craters. Since most nuclear authorities agree that any further bomb testing will be done underground to avoid contaminating the atmosphere or the ocean, a force...