Word: fallouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your June 3 summary of the bomb tests is an excellent example of concise reporting of a complex subject. One of the larger pitfalls involved in the fallout problem is that of assuming that science and research will take care of the matter in good time. As a member of the scientific fraternity, I should say that although we have done little to dispel the idea that researchers can invariably come up with the right thing at the right time, this is far from true; scientific methods are reasonably above reproach, but those who use them are subject to human...
Outside Washington, it might have been difficult last week to scratch up an argument on such momentous subjects as H-bomb fallout or trade with Red China, but nearly every mother's son and every son's mother had an opinion about the case of an American soldier facing trial in a Japanese court. It was not the first time a G.I. faced trial in a foreign court, nor would it be the last. Nonetheless, this was the case that caught the public ear and prompted the rumbling of the Public Voice on Capitol Hill...
...debate about the fallout will continue for years, with scientists contributing a minor part of the wordage. Most of them realize that the major decisions are political and moral rather than scientific. Professors George W. Beadle and Alfred Henry Sturtevant of Caltech's biology division speak for this group. They believe that bomb testing is dangerous to the world at large and should be held to a minimum, but they do not know how to balance human danger against the military advantage that may be won by testing. "We don't know what is gained by the tests...
...good for special military uses, such as obliterating a city whose site must be occupied soon, but they lack the full punch of "dirty" megaton bombs. No one could be sure that a U.S. enemy, for instance, would use a clean bomb to obliterate Washington when the fallout of a dirty one might kill, in addition, most of the inhabitants of Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia and New York. "The fight for the clean bomb"-a phrase now current in atomic discussion-is not a product of hard-headed military thinking. It is likely that more effort is being invested in designing...