Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smaller nuclear devices are generally exploded on steel towers inside a ring of screening mountains north of Las Vegas. The towers are vaporized by the heat, and the atomic fireball, touching the ground for an instant, drags up toward the stratosphere a large amount of radioactive dust. Both the dust and the vaporized steel must fall to earth somewhere, and the piercing outcry from places where they have fallen has made the AEC jumpy...
Exploding the devices from balloons will reduce this local fallout. There will be no tower to vaporize (the balloon hardly counts), and if the balloon is tethered high enough, the rising cloud will drag no hot dust with...
...Mapleson sent many of his best cylinders to England, where they were promptly ruined by the climate. The ones he kept were played so often by the singers themselves that they were nearly worn out by the time Mapleson gave up recording (in 1903) and stored them away. The dust-covered cylinders were unearthed in 1937, shortly before Mapleson's death, by a diligent phonographic antiquarian named William H. Seltsam, of Bridgeport, Conn., and some were transferred to 78-r.p.m. disks. These, plus several other Mapleson cylinders never before released...
Finally the head council of the world body ordered him for the fifth time and unanimously (with one abstention) to hold the plebiscite, but it was too late. The Moral Authority, the bridge between two worlds, the man who had cast dust into the eyes of the world that he might appear bright had arranged for annexation of the most valuable part of the small principality. He ignored the head council of the world body and achieved his maneuver...
Then the nations of the world wiped the dust from their eyes and saw the wise man as he was. The wise man was no longer a Moral Authority at all, but being a wise man he was aware that his former position did not pay nearly as well as the one he had now gained. He still wore a rose on his lapel, but his heart was not in the right place. It shifted continually...