Word: detections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Insult to All. Because Communist chieftains are so eager to see division in the West, they tend to overestimate both the width of the fissures they detect and their ability to widen them with ploys, threats and propaganda. Crude Communist efforts to stir division within the U.S. or between the U.S. and its allies often have the opposite effect of fostering a more determined unity. Inevitably, Khrushchev's attack on President Eisenhower rebounded...
...back with jugs of sludge precipitated chemically from 2,500 gal. of six-month-old rain water. The stuff was faintly hot, containing the radioactive cerium and yttrium that are typical products of nuclear fission. As of then, King knew he had a quick and easy way to detect nuclear explosions...
...step toward that distant goal, the President announced that his Administration was planning to submit to the United Nations a plan for international U.N. surveillance from the air-an updated version of his Russian-spurned "open skies" proposal of 1955. As an illustration of how much aerial surveillance could detect, the President displayed a blown-up photograph of the North Island Naval Air Station at San Diego. The photograph had been taken at an altitude of 13 miles (from a U-2 of the same type as Pilot Francis Powers flew over Russia), but visible in it were parking...
...near perfect orbit around the earth went Midas II, weighing 5,000 Ibs. with a 3,600-lb. instrument package. But Midas was more than a mere heavyweight monster. It was alive and alert, and in its nose was its reason for being: an infra-red sensor able to detect unusual sources of heat on earth or high in the atmosphere-and thus, by spotting exhaust flames, to give the U.S. warning of hostile missiles streaking toward it from distant lands...
...have come to Paris," he went on, "to seek agreements with the Soviet Union which would eliminate the necessity for all forms of espionage, including overflights ... I am planning in the near future to submit to the U.N. a proposal for the creation of a U.N. aerial surveillance to detect preparations for attack. This surveillance system would operate in the territories of all nations prepared to accept such inspection...