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...core of the estimate was a report submitted by a committee of scientific advisers headed by Physicist Hans Bethe and based on air scoops from the fallout of Soviet test shots, on seismographic recordings and on analyses of heat, sound and light effects. Added to the Bethe report were findings compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Atomic Energy Commission, Pentagon intelligence units and the President's own national security advisers. The evidence was overwhelming, leading to the conclusion that the Russians have made giant strides in the field of strategic thermonuclear weaponry, that they are rapidly catching...
...There was strong evidence that the Russians have developed an improved fission triggering device that greatly reduces the amount of radioactive fallout. Part of this new "cleanliness" might be attributed to high-altitude bursts, which do not suck up dust-but there was every reason to believe that the U.S.S.R. has made great strides in sophisticating its atomic art to a point almost equal to that...
Think of men fighting in a fallout shelter after a nuclear attack. A gruesome situation, and a brilliant one for a play, but since the idea carries its own dramatic weight, the playwright must beware of substituting public terror and public slogans for his own private statement...
...defense, will rely on its speed, maneuverability and the guns and rockets of its shepherding ships for survival in the age of the atom and the missile. The Enterprise is specially reinforced to withstand nuclear attack, can seal itself off below the hangar deck to avoid fallout, and has a washdown system to sluice away the spray from atomic near misses...
...Summer to Remember. The Soviet film industry, which has recently been testing products of high entertainment yield and low propaganda fallout (Ballad of a Soldier, Fate of a Man), now releases a warm and wonderfully funny story of a little boy's life with father in contemporary Russia...