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...atomic testing grounds on the Nevada desert last week, fallout was a key consideration. For four days in a row, the AEC postponed the scheduled first shot in a new series of tests-the explosion of an "atomic device" atop a 500-ft. tower. On the first scheduled test day, weather calculations showed that the radioactive cloud from a dawn explosion would be passing over the town of Caliente, Nev. (pop. 1,000), about 50 miles away, at about the time schoolchildren were standing on the street corners waiting for buses. For the next three days, there were similar problems...
Along with the H-bomb decision were "far-reaching effects." Britain's new $4.3 billion military budget follows the U.S. pattern of reducing overall expenditures (by some $286 million) while stepping up the emphasis on air power, the atom and electronic warfare. Main features: Air Force: The R.A.F., for the first time, will get the lion's share of British defense spending. Its "primary task'': to build up a striking force of atom-bomber squadrons as the "main contribution to the deterrent." The air defense of Britain will rest on delta- and swept-wing jets like...
...calm, confident white paper, Britain's Ministry of Fuel and Power told last week how it plans to make Britain an atom-powered nation. The changeover will be gradual, but the program is much more ambitious than any officially advanced...
FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR for the Air Force is in operation at Convair's Fort Worth plant. While mum on what the reactor is being developed for, Convair is aiming at something besides an atom-powered bomber. All the Air Force will let Convair say is that its engineers "are working toward the adaption of nuclear energy to the development of other weapons systems...
...Monday. Clinton Locy called it quits. He had made his way through all the Old Testament and most of the New, sung some hymns, lectured on the Holy Land, and delivered some reflections on the atom bomb. "If anyone had sat through the entire sermon," he said, "they would have heard as much Gospel as they'd get in a year at church...