Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Near by are underground workshops, rows of air-conditioned huts, and an airstrip fit for jets. To the south is the emptiness of the Tanezrouft-the "thirst country" of the central Sahara -where France will most likely test its late starter in the atomic race: a model T bomb too big for their airplanes and too crude even to compare with recent generations of U.S., British and Russian nuclear devices. Knowing their first bomb to be primitive, the French are anxious not so much to catch up with other atomic powers overnight as to capture political prestige by becoming Member...
When would the French explode their bomb? "It would be unreasonable to make such an experiment in the Sahara at the period of greatest heat," said a French official. The heat was of two kinds-the summer sun, which lasts until mid-September, and the September U.N. General Assembly session, where the French face a closer vote on the Algerian question. January seems like better political weather...
Just Like Chicago. Officially, Soustelle is Minister Delegate to the Premier, with four responsibilities-the Sahara, atomic energy ("but not the bomb"), overseas territories and overseas departments-but he prefers to be known by his unofficial title, Minister of the Sahara. A solidly built, wavy-haired man with blandly skeptical eyes half-hidden behind owlish glasses, Soustelle calls himself "a typical Frenchman," and in some respects looks the part. But at various times in his meteoric career this tough, confident and shrewd man has been described as "the Molotov of Gaullism," "Jacques the Wrecker," "the Big Alley Cat," "a born...
Page one headlines trumpeted last week what may be a major breakthrough in the problem of detecting missile launchings and nuclear explosions anywhere in the world. The news: a radio-monitoring method-called Project Tepee-reported to be so sensitive that it can track Russian bomb tests and rocketry from stations within...
Wrinkles Ahead. Navy enthusiasts point out that Tepee stations are low-powered and relatively cheap, talk of a system of six stations that would monitor any rocket the Russians set off or atomic bomb that they tested above ground. Thaler himself makes no such claims, recognizes that there are still plenty of wrinkles. "We know the theory and the equipment works.'' said Thaler last week, "and our experiments have been successful from the beginning, but we will have to learn a lot more before we will be able to say we have a system. We have been trying...