Word: fallouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest dispute between Anderson and Strauss began when Senator Anderson, appearing on the Meet the Press television program, accused the U.S. military of "inserting something" in atomic bombs to increase, rather than reduce, atomic fallout (TIME, May 12). Last week Lewis Strauss replied to Anderson's charge in a calm, factual letter to Joint Committee on Atomic Energy Chairman Carl Durham of North Carolina. "Atomic bombs," said Strauss, "are only taken from stockpiles for purposes of routine inspection or for modification or improvement. No material is 'inserted' in bombs for the purpose of increasing the amount...
...Nous the Fallout. The Tom-Lila-Chris axis turns mainly on romanticized undergraduate japes, e.g., a ten-day blackjack game, a 100-mile drive in a stolen milk truck. The trio and their clique habitually see life through one too many cocktail glasses, but the stem of boredom keeps breaking between their fingers. Chris bleeds to death in an auto crash, and Tom and Lila individually reach respectability across the great divide that separates the hipsters from the squares...
...taboos even when it did no more than kiss and pet. Novelist Gutwillig's off-beat generation takes its sinning much more casually, but jabs itself with sensations for the sake of sensations. The author's implied excuse for their frantic frivolities is apocalyptic-apres nons the fallout. But back of it all is the eternal romantic urge of the young to live in and for the moment. The unwitting pathos of Author Gutwillig's characters is that the only way they can make time stand still is to kill...
Professional scientific controversy suffices to elucidate the problem of fallout and nuclear radiation, and no amount of public debate can shed much light on the issue. Such unprofessional agitation can only propel the nation to a position of dangerous weakness and confusion. Disarmament may be desirable on grounds of reducing world tension and decreasing the possibility of open conflict, but it cannot be justified solely by moral arguments...
Political Reasons. Indiana University's famed Nobel Prizewinning Geneticist Dr. Hermann Muller, who had signed Pauling's stop-the-tests petition of 9,235 scientists (2,749 from Communist Rumania), staked out his view that while the scientific perils of fallout have been exaggerated, tests ought to be stopped for political reasons-"desirable for the easing of tensions...