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...manned by international teams. In addition, flying squads of international inspectors would have the right to make at least twelve on-the-spot checks (known in disarmament jargon as "on-site"inspections) in Russia each year to investigate suspicious explosions. For instance, they would find out whether a given blast was a nuclear bang or a natural earthquake...
...Russians reply that inspection may be carried out only by each country's own nationals. This of course would mean no effective inspection at all. But they also argue-and some Western scientists agree-that human inspection is beside the point anyway: nuclear blasts can be detected by instruments placed beyond each nation's borders. That argument gained force last month when the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency reported new seismic detection techniques (TIME, July 20), which make it a lot easier than expected to distinguish a nuclear blast from an earthquake. Last week President Kennedy...
...test the onrushing Atlas ICBM actually carried a transmitter to clue the slender, 48-ft. Nike-Zeus bird in on its target.* In an actual attack, an ICBM might spew out "decoys" designed to baffle the tracking radar-as was not the case last week-or an ionospheric nuclear blast might knock out the radar altogether. "As advanced as the Nike-Zeus system is-and we believe it to be quite advanced-it has serious weaknesses," said McNamara last winter. "There is widespread doubt as to whether it should ever be deployed." The fact is that nobody has an effective...
...Japan wanted to surrender long before they dropped the atomic bombs. But Strauss had no doubts about the need for the U.S. to keep ahead in the nuclear arms race. Shortly after his appointment to the AEC in 1946, he recommended building a monitoring system to detect Russian atomic blasts. At the time, most people thought a Russian atom bomb was years away; Strauss had to plead, push, finally offered $1,000,000 out of his own pocket to speed up procurement. A scant four months after the monitoring began, a Russian blast was detected...
...phalanxes that troop past the Communist bigwigs in Red Square, with zest and joy beaming from every brainwashed face. A song is not just a song; thanks to a noisy collection of 211 instruments, among them trombones, double bell euphoniums, bassoons, and glockenspiels. Music Man is a hard-sell blast aimed at the eardrums of a new breed, presumably stereophonic man. Like many a cinemusical extravaganza, Music Man operates on the principle that an audience that is hit hard enough, often enough, can be reduced to a pulp of pleasure...