Word: fallouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deadline for a workable Russian agreement on test inspection. Said Rockefeller: "I think that we cannot afford to fall behind in the advanced techniques of the use of nuclear material. I think those testings could be carried on, for instance, underground, where there would be no fallout." Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, chairman of the Senate Disarmament Subcommittee, countered that the U.S. ought to extend the test suspension for one more year...
Officially, Rockefeller was in Chicago to attend a Governors' Conference committee meeting on a serious subject that he takes seriously: the urgent need for civil defense fallout shelters (TIME, July 20). But a glance at his two-day schedule was ample evidence that he was also embarked on his first major political foray outside New York, a fact that made his tenseness all the more noticeable. At a first-day press conference in the Shoreland Hotel ballroom he irritated reporters by parrying the political questions. Finally a newsman asked if he was trying to duck questions about his presidential...
...self-imposed one-year suspension of nuclear tests has stirred uneasiness at the Defense Department and the Atomic Energy Commission, mostly because it seriously hinders U.S. research on compact nuclear weapons with reduced fallout. Last week, overruling Defense and AEC objections, President Eisenhower decided to extend the nuclear-test suspension, scheduled to end on Oct. 31, for two extra months...
...breaking their long silence on their Sahara plans, the French told the African states that the tests would take place in a "desolate region totally uninhabited ... in the dead center of the Sahara about 2,750 kilometers (1,709 miles) from Monrovia," and closer in fact to Paris itself. Fallout, insisted the French government, would be "in regions of several hundred kilometers where there is no known life," unlike U.S. experiments within 80 miles of Las Vegas, Russian explosions less than 150 miles from Semipalatinsk...
...Denver's Allendale Heights suburban development this week, Homebuilder Jack C. Hoerner (rhymes with corner), World War II test pilot, put finishing touches on the demonstrator model of 40 three-bedroom houses with a unique sales gimmick: a 12-ft. by 14-ft. fallout shelter built into the basement and into the regular $17,500 price tag. The first for-sale version of the house, one of two now abuilding, sold to an about-to-retire Army major who once studied radiation effects, broke off negotiations on another house when he heard of Hoerner's shelter, said: "That...