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...first press conference what he had long argued in private (TIME. Sept. 1)-that stopping U.S. tests "would delay and probably prevent'' development of low-radioactivity ("clean") weapons essential for U.S. defense, e.g., antimissile missiles. In its last test at Nevada Proving Grounds, before the stoppage, the AEC successfully set off a Hiroshima-sized underground shot ( 20 kilotons) that spouted a geyser of dirt but proved beyond doubt that the Russians could make important underground tests without leaving a scintilla of telltale fallout-thus leaving detection to highly fallible, faraway seismographs...
...Geiger counters showed a steady rise in the atmosphere's radioactivity level. At midweek a brisk high-altitude wind, blowing from Nevada, brought radioactivity from a test shot above normal safety levels, sent Health Officer Uhl round to see Los Angeles' Mayor Norris Poulson. Poulson phoned the AEC in Washington, finally got through to AECommissioner Willard Libby, was assured that 1) the fallout level was not dangerous at all; 2) the Nevada test series was almost complete...
...newspaper offices. TV studios. Scientists passed out the word. "No danger to anyone.'' said U.C.L.A.'s Nuclear Medicine Expert Dr. Thomas Hennessey. "I don't think the public's mind should be relieved." said U.S.C.'s Biochemistry Professor Dr. Paul Saltman. And when AEC said later that it hoped to conduct one more test shot in Nevada the next night, weather permitting, Mayor Poulson blew up: "We don't like to be talked to like children! If they shoot that, last shot, there will be repercussions!" AEC called off that, last shot because...
...those who though they were well rid of Strauss when he resigned as AEC head in June, his latest promotion comes as an unpleasant shock. There is no reason to honor the man whose treatment of Oppenheimer was not exactly gallant, and who has clouded the facts about atmospheric pollution and nuclear test explosions. In giving him this new position, President Eisenhower has done the country a considerable disservice, one which only the Senate can remedy...
...their own problems. Jim Farley and state commerce commissioner Edward Dickinson were eliminated early. Carmine DeSapio, boss of Tammany Hall, supported New York City District Attorney Frank Hogan, while Harriman and Mayor Wagner held out for a "more liberal" man, either former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter or former AEC Commissioner Thomas Murray. In the ensuing power struggle, DeSapio won, with the aid of Buffalo Democratic leader Peter Crotty; Crotty was promptly rewarded with the nomination for Attorney General...