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Developed by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and Space Technology Laboratories, the space sentries are parts of a many-sided program to detect clandestine nuclear tests. One tempting possibility for a nation that has signed a test ban but intends to cheat is to shoot a test device deep into space and observe the results by means of instruments carried on a nearby spacecraft. Since a nuclear explosion in a vacuum gives little visible light, it might well go unnoticed by observers on earth...
...With Childlike Faith." Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was deeply concerned about absence in the treaty of a provision for on-site inspection. U.S. ability to detect cheating is "considerable," he noted; yet the Joint Chiefs of Staff hinged their O.K. of the test ban partly on improvement of detection devices. Russell argued that the treaty would handicap U.S. progress toward developing an effective anti-ballistic missile system, since warheads could only be tested underground. "What a paradox," he said. "We will not buy a simple rifle, or even the most primitive weapon...
Outwardly, Paul seems cold and stern; but audiences detect the humanity inside, and his fluency with languages makes the pilgrims feel at home. He addressed the crowd in Italian, English, French, German and Spanish. Hushed on other days, St. Peter's is no church of silence when an audience is in session. As the Pope read off the list of the day's visiting organizations, the great basilica rang with sound-handclapping and whistles, shrill, peeping vivas from nuns and grade-school delegations, deep-toned cheers from seminarians...
Honeywell's researchers have developed infra-red sensing tubes that can detect a frying pan's heat from five miles away - or spy out a distant rocket - and a humidity register so sensitive that it knows when a teaspoonful of water is brought into a room. It took a Honeywell gyroscope to measure the Empire State Building's maximum sway (onequarter inch) and bury forever the tourist canard that the world's tallest building rocks in a high wind. Eye examinations will eventually be more comfortable because of a Honeywell device that measures eyeball pressure with...
Like McNamara, who followed him, Rusk vowed that the U.S. will remain vigilant against the possibility of Soviet duplicity. Said he: "We shall be on the alert for any violations, and we have a high degree of confidence in our ability to detect them." In fact, Rusk went out of his way to assure the Senators that the Administration is not so naive as to think the treaty is based on mutual trust. "I don't believe that an agreement of this sort can rest upon the elements of faith and trust. The Soviet Union does not trust...