Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course the West has never worried about gaining agreement to a cessation of tests but it has been concerned over Soviet willingness to accept a reasonably effective control system to police the ban. Compromise by both sides on their interpretation of the word "reasonable" has helped achieve agreement on this essential element...
...beyond the atmosphere, however, was sketchy. There was, at that time, only the one Mt. Rainier underground explosion to serve as an example. The only observable products of an underground explosion are shock waves, waves which are very similar to those of an earthquake. The experts concluded that a control system of 180 stations equipped with seismographs would be adequate to detect with "good probability" explosions of five kilotons or more. Such a system could also spot tests of smaller extent but with less reliability...
...succeeding 11 months the political machinery to direct the system has been agreed upon: a control commission, administrator, and regular conferences of signatory nations. Provision for re-evaluation of the effectiveness of the inspection system was obtained. The West and Russia compromised on the duration of the treaty (it is to be indefinite as the Russians insisted) and withdrawal right (any time the treaty was not fulfilled, the West's point). Furthermore the West obtained Soviet agreement on the installation and operation of control stations in each other's territory, a measure hitherto rejected by the security-minded Russians...
GAMBLING: The Church of England "has never declared that betting and gambling are ecclesiastical crimes." Dr. Fisher came out in favor of the government's new bill to legalize off-track betting as a way to control a "grave social evil." But, he added, this does not mean the church is "saying that betting and gaming are good things. They...
...waterfowl biologist for the Michigan State Department of Conservation thought he knew: "Elderly hunters are affected seriously by low temperatures. Anderson stood up for a better crack at a flock of ducks, and his legs were undoubtedly numbed and out of control. In balmy October weather, there would have been no accident...