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...Army leadership also was to blame, as it groped for a new mission in the age of the missile and the atom. With what money it had, the Army joined the interservice scramble for space, developed the Jupiter-C that launched the first satellite in 1958. Army Research and Development spent millions perfecting the intermediate-range, nuclear-tipped Jupiter missile (no kin to Jupiter-C), only to have it taken away by the Department of Defense and given to the Air Force. Other sorely needed Army funds were spent on such Buck Rogers gimmicks as the one-man helicopter...
Ever since the atom became a weapon, the U.S. has been creating new programs for arms control and disarmament as fast as the Russians can reject them. Last week, in his address to the U.N. General Assembly. President Kennedy put forth still another U.S. offer to get started on planning for peace. This time the President picked up and took as his own the Soviet Union's perennial demand for "general and complete disarmament"-but backed up that sweeping plea with some specific proposals. Kennedy's steps toward disarmament included...
...about their chances of survival. There were the usual neurotics. In Chicago, public officials received a spate of calls from women complaining that their hair curlers were radioactive, from men suspicious of the olives in their martinis (Chicago Psychiatrist Milton A. Dushkin named the ailment "nucleomitophobia"-fear of the atom). A motorcade of 30 food faddists set out from New York to find new, safe homes in the northern California town of Chico-blandly ignoring the fact that a Titan missile pad, which would presumably be a prime Soviet target, was less than seven miles from their sanctuary...
...Emory scientists took their measure of the future at Dawsonville, Ga., some 50 miles north of Atlanta, where the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. built a medium-sized (10,000 kw.) unshielded nuclear reactor for Air Force research on atom-powered airplanes. The reactor was set among wooded hills and abandoned fields that were reverting to forest, and in June 1959 it was allowed to operate for a short period at high level, spraying its surroundings with gamma rays and neutrons, the total dose simulating the effect of fallout after a nuclear...
Shortly after Russia did get "the atom," by exploding its first bomb in 1949, the great philosopher began pleading with the West to lie down before world Communism. One day last week, Lord Russell, 89, walked into London's Bow Street Magistrates' Court accompanied by Lady Russell, 61, and three dozen fellow members of Britain's ban-the-bomb movement, which advocates unilateral Western dis armament. Together, they stood charged* of planning a giant sitdown demonstration in Parliament Square, of "inciting members of the public" to attend even after the Ministry of Works declined permission...