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Ploughshare optimism is based on studies of a long series of craters blasted by both chemical and nuclear explosives in the Nevada desert. The first, called Buster Jangle-U. (1951), used a crude atom bomb with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. It dug a circular hole 53 ft. deep and 258 ft. in diameter. The next shot, Teapot-Ess, had the same yield, but it was placed deeper and it dug a deeper and wider crater. With these and other shots, Ploughshare scientists built up a body of theory and experience in which they have great confidence. Latest and largest...
...Atomic Energy Commission also gets hit. Said the President in his speech: "We are cutting back on our production of enriched uranium by 25%, shutting down four plutonium piles." It is widely agreed that the U.S. has enough enriched uranium to suit any foreseeable purpose. Still, one argument against such a cutback was that it would mean job losses in places where plants were closed. The President answered that one by telling aides, "We're not going to produce atom bombs as a WPA project...
Open Mind. By 1934, he was savvy enough to ask his friend Albert Einstein a prophetic question: could man unlock the atom's energy? Einstein's reply: "No, never. We are marksmen shooting at birds in the dark, and in a country where there are very few birds...
...Nikolai Kozyrev. Dr. Hall believes that the fierce heat of returning sunlight may have released gases from the lunar interior. At a Dallas conference on newly discovered astronomical objects last week, Nobel Chemist Dr. Harold Urey suggested that the gas may have contained carbon in the form of two-atom molecules that cannot exist on earth. If further evidence proves that the spots really do exist and are indeed caused by eruptions of gas from the moon's interior, they will present one more difficulty for would-be lunar explorers...
...Tanganyikan delegates to the U.N. was duly exercised. The U.S., he said, was plotting with South Africa to test atom bombs. He had read all about it in the newspapers...