Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only Trust. Amid all the casualness and general relaxation there were still some notable dangers abroad. One was that a new deal on disarmament might set a trend toward coexistence in Europe, i.e., accepting the division of Germany and the Russian conquest of the satellites as "a finality." Another danger was that Britain's decision to sell strategic goods to Red China might set a trend toward co-existence in Asia, i.e., recognition and respectability for Red China, a thought that the State Department speedily squashed (see below). But looming over the dangers was the fact that...
...headed off to National Airport for more practice. Next month man and machine will return to the White House for the "Operation Alert" civil-defense drill. This flight will be the payoff: the first U.S. President to ride a helicopter will climb aboard to be whisked away from simulated danger- accompanied by a second copter carrying two Secret Servicemen...
...years, with scientists contributing a minor part of the wordage. Most of them realize that the major decisions are political and moral rather than scientific. Professors George W. Beadle and Alfred Henry Sturtevant of Caltech's biology division speak for this group. They believe that bomb testing is dangerous to the world at large and should be held to a minimum, but they do not know how to balance human danger against the military advantage that may be won by testing. "We don't know what is gained by the tests," says Dr. Beadle...
...Danger of genetic damage from fallout radiation that affects the reproductive organs does not alarm Libby either. The amount is too small, he says, "from 0.7% to about 3% of the natural radiation exposure." Another Libby example: a person moving into a concrete-block house in certain countries may get up to 100 times as much additional radiation from naturally radioactive elements in the concrete as he is getting from present fallout. He recognizes that fission products from past tests are still stored in the stratosphere and that they will soon be joined by the products of new tests. This...
...general, the physicists are less alarmed than the biologists are. Says Director Samuel K. Allison of the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi Institute: "Unless the rate of [bomb] testing is greatly stepped up, there is little or no danger to the general public. But if every nation gets into testing, the situation could be extremely serious." He favors an international limit on the power of bombs that may be tested...