Word: bans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHENEVER the U.S. announces a new series of nuclear tests, protests against fallout dangers rumble at home and abroad. Last week, with the U.S. planning to hold tests at Eniwetok this summer, and with Moscow hinting at a unilateral test ban as a propaganda ploy, the rumble turned to thunder. But this time a recognized authority, the University of California's Physicist Edward Teller (TIME Cover, Nov. 18, 1957) was ready with an important book stating the case for continued testing. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Nuclear Tests: World Debate...
...never seems to flare when the Russians are testing.) Last week, as Washington waited for Russia to strike the propaganda pose of unilaterally halting its own tests, the British Labor Party's Hugh Gaitskell, a likely future Prime Minister, called upon Britain to declare a unilateral test ban of its own. In St. Louis, Washington University's left-leaning Physicist Edward U. Condon predicted that because of radioactive fallout from tests "many thousands of persons in the world will suffer agonizing death from bone cancer and leukemia." In Lausanne, Switzerland, by contrast, a nine-nation scientific-medical conference...
After four days of frenetic debate, the Bundestag voted to equip the West German army with nuclear weapons. But far from silencing the ban-the-bomb hoopla, the decision only stirred up a whole new series of eruptions...
Newsmen who try to overcome the judiciary's traditional ban on photographing trial action risk a charge of contempt of court. Last week, after an Omaha court let press and TV photographers shoot at will, the familiar legal weapon was turned against the judge himself...
...Canada, where a national campaign moved toward the March 31 election date, Liberal Challenger Lester Bowles Pearson uncorked a dramatic bid for votes. Reversing a stand he held when he was Secretary of State for External Affairs, Pearson declared that Canada should press for an immediate ban on nuclear-bomb tests...