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...make announcements on no more than half the 30 nuclear shots to be fired at the mid-Pacific Eniwetok Proving Ground this summer during the Operation Hardtack test series. But there is another compelling reason for secrecy as well. By not revealing the time and type of all bursts AEC will avoid offering the Russians an opportunity to test their capability at detecting small-yield nuclear shots...
...physicist, to head up a new presidential study on disarmament. Bethe and Teller had clashed in 1949 and early 1950 on the feasibility of making a hydrogen bomb-Teller for, Bethe against. They had clashed over the security suspension of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer when Teller testified for the AEC and Bethe for Oppenheimer. Now Teller and Bethe were the poles of groups contending for the President's ear on an issue that might make a cold-war turning point...
...AEC's Chairman Strauss was still for the package plan, the U.S.'s disarmament position "to date." But Strauss's testimony was overshadowed when, during questions, Missouri's Symington revealed the gist of Presidential Adviser Bethe's 2½ hours of testimony behind closed doors. Bethe's conclusion: 1) inspection of a ban on tests is wholly feasible, 2) agreement between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. on stopping tests is therefore feasible-and desirable. Symington paraphrased Bethe's conclusion: "He personally feels that we should go ahead with a test suspension without tying...
...these materials are byproducts of plutonium manufacture, and their sudden drop in price is due to a big new plant that AEC has built in Oak Ridge, Tenn. to purify them. Some of the market possibilities: atomic batteries, radiation sterilization of surgical supplies, large-scale chemical processing, light sources...
Western miners and Congressmen who had complained bitterly about the freeze (TIME, March 10) were not entirely satisfied that the AEC has thawed enough. Milling capacity will be boosted only in areas where ore bodies were developed before last Nov. 1, thus giving no encouragement to the development of new finds or combatting the sharp decline in U.S. prospecting in the last six months. But Western miners hope that more thawing weather...