Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggestion to ban the big, controllable tests. In addition, he suggested that all powers "voluntarily ban, for 'four or five years,'" the low-yield underground tests that could not be monitored. Meanwhile, the Soviets would support the U.S. call for an all-out drive to develop seismic methods to detect such elusive blasts. For all its pitfalls, the bid seemed to contain two Soviet concessions: that small tests would not have to be banned permanently, and an admission that the control system needs to be improved...
Furthermore, they said the U.S. would be wise to accept the Soviet plan for a year or two, because even the best of systems would require a year or two to install adequate control stations. And in the next few years, scientists might actually develop foolproof detectors, or the Soviets might give a bit more on inspection. Most important, the Soviets had apparently accepted the principle of inspection (albeit with precious few specifics), and inspection is the starting point for any realistic system of disarmament. By making this start-at an admitted risk-the U.S., they held, would win respect...
...landing craft No. 36 from its moorings in the Russian-held Kurile Islands, north of Japan, and driven it out to sea. The four aboard had been unable to catch any fish, made no attempt to trap sea birds, failed to maintain a system of regular watches or to develop a distress signal to attract passing ships (three passed on the horizon without seeing them). Even worse, they had apparently made no attempt to ration their food and had eaten it all in the first 16 days. But the ultimate test of survival technique is to survive, and on that...
Under the eyes of the indifferent Germans, Cousteau worked with a brilliant engineer named Emile Gagnon to develop a lung that would automatically feed him safe compressed air so that he could swim with both arms. To be safe, a diver must have air in his lungs at the same pressure as the surrounding water. With less pressure, his lungs may be crushed; with more, they may expand until they rupture. To survive. Cousteau required a device that gave a diver air at pressures that matched the changing weight of water as he sank and rose...
Fear on the Reef. Cousteau could scarcely wait for the war to end to develop his new discovery. He sold the French navy on the virtues of the Aqua-Lung, soon got leave for government-backed oceanographic work on the 360-ton Calypso, a converted minesweeper from the British Royal Navy. Aboard the Calypso, Cousteau gathered the material and shot the films that were to bring sudden fame to diving and himself. The Silent World, written originally in English, was published in the U.S. in 1953, sold more than 486,000 copies (worldwide sale: 5,000,000). His 86-minute...