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...that, said the committee, was to 1) write President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon; 2) write Congressmen, editors and commentators; 3) "organize a group" or work with existing groups "in your community." The point to make: the U.S.'s summer series of nuclear weapons tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific ought to be suspended right now. "Scientists warn," the committee warned, "that thousands of babies will be malformed because of tests to date . . . We must stop the contamination of the air, the milk children drink, the food...
Operation Hardtack, the U.S. nuclear test program at Eniwetok, will get under way this week, weather permitting. Already 10,000 men, 100 ships and 120 aircraft of Air Force Major General Alvin Luedecke's Joint Task Force Seven are deployed around Eniwetok's dazzling white coral atolls at the heart of a 590,000-sq.-mi. mid-Pacific "danger zone." From April through August Task Force Seven expects to set off 26 to 30 nuclear explosions, ranging from 50 kilotons to several megatons, from test towers, in mid-air and beneath the sea. Programed highlights...
...balance the risks on one side and the other." And the best word at week's end was that the U.S., caught between necessities of defense and heavy pressure to placate "world opinion," intended to strike a balance of 1) pressing home this year's Eniwetok nuclear-weapons tests come clamor, come what may; but 2) considering, after Eniwetok, whether to follow Khrushchev's lead by declaring future U.S. nuclear tests suspended. Said the President at his news conference: "I would certainly consider it very seriously at that point...
Died. Mark M. Mills, 40, jet-propulsion expert, designer and developer of atomic and hydrogen weapons, deputy director of the University of California Radiation Laboratory (Livermore Branch); of drowning in a helicopter crash; at Eniwetok, where nuclear-weapons tests are scheduled to begin this week...
...officials (Dulles, Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss) on whether "to try to steal a march on the Soviet" by announcing a suspension of U.S. nuclear tests. He had decided that this summer's tests of "clean." i.e., low-fallout, nuclear weapons at Eniwetok Atoll were essential to U.S. security. Said Dulles: "We decided that we could not, in fairness to our responsibilities and our duties to the American people, perhaps to humanity, desist in a program which we believe to be sound merely for propaganda purposes...