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WASHINGTON, May 5--Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John A. McCone said today a scientific advisory committee soon "will give further reassurance to the people of the world about the very small hazard resulting from fallout" of nuclear bomb tests.
The nomination of Lewis Strauss went before the Senate's Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee more than three months ago-but the committee did not call Strauss up for questioning until mid-March. Chairman Warren Magnuson hinted at what lay ahead. "There are many, many questions," said Washington Democrat...
White Sands. Jim and Abbie were married in the fall of 1945 and settled down in suburban Silver Spring. With war's end, Van Allen had no further interest in fuses or weapons. He wanted to get back to studying cosmic rays. He learned that the U.S. Army had...
Channel II came from a scintillation counter sensitive to radiation from one direction. Each wave records 2,048 particles above a certain energy level. Because the satellite is tumbling, the waves are spaced at varying intervals-closer together when the instrument points into the radiation, further apart when it turns...
The bill got no support from unions or industry. Steelworkers Union Chief David McDonald opposed the bill because he felt it would have "a stifling effect on free collective bargaining." Freezing prices to halt inflation, said U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, is "like trying to check the rising pressure...