Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inspect the U.S. exhibit abuilding for the Moscow fair last week, the West caught an echo of the missile-rattling Khrushchev when he told a group of visiting West German editors that in any nuclear war "the Western powers would be literally wiped off the face of the earth" (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...group of West German visitors to Moscow that Russia could put their homeland "out of action" with not more than eight H-bombs; in a nuclear war, he conceded, Russia would suffer "losses, and great ones," but "the Western powers would be literally wiped off the face of the earth...
...serious is the threat presented to man by fallout-the radioactive debris that settles invisibly over the earth after test explosions? Reactions range from unconcern to the near side of panic. Alarmed by recent announcements of sizable fail-out increases over North America since the U.S. and Soviet nuclear tests in October, a subcommittee of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy held hearings last week, listened to scientists' reports addressed to two pivotal questions: How much of fission's byproducts -notably strontium 90, which enters the body in food, accumulates in the bones and may cause leukemia...
...development of atomic weapons (AEC, Department of Defense) have different objectives from groups that are concerned primarily with the control of disease (e.g., the Public Health Service). Nonetheless, the scientists found agreement in several areas: fallout patterns vary in different parts of the world; debris comes to earth more rapidly than was once thought. And some new information was made public...
...earth do you explain that?" we asked the students of the "white" University of Chapel Hill...