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Plasma from the Sun. The radiation belt, Van Allen conjectured, is probably a "plasma" made of disassociated hydrogen atoms (protons and electrons) that came originally from the sun and are held high above the earth by the earth's magnetic field. The belt may extend outward for two earth radii (8,000) miles before it disappears. Van Allen suspects that the supply of plasma fluctuates a good deal; the particles tend to leak down to the earth's atmosphere and are replenished from time to time by fresh particles shot into space by disturbances...
...free men. to apply to those principles the lessons of experience and the guide of reason is the great task of lawyers. It was in that spirit and toward that end that the president of the American Bar Association conceived of Law Day, U.S.A. "The atomic and hydrogen bombs." says Charles Rhyne, "have attuned the people of the world to an overwhelming desire for peace, which is probably stronger than any such desire in all history...
...being filled with what Russia would be unwilling to discuss-the status of the satellites, the reunification of Germany. ¶Foreign Minister Gromyko's formal charge that the U.S. Strategic Air Command constitutes "a threat to peace," because it sends bombers armed with hydrogen weapons flying toward Russia whenever an unexplained "blip" appears on U.S. radar screens, proved a dismal flop before the U.N. Security Council. Since the U.S. was easily able to prove the safeguards in its "Fail Safe" technique-which prevents any U.S. plane from actually proceeding to a Russian target without personal orders from the President...
...annihilation process." Best example is the huge meteor that blazed over southern Russia on the morning of June 30, 1908. Minutes later it crashed in the forest wastes of central Siberia near the Stony Tunguska River, exploding with a force roughly equivalent to that of a hydrogen bomb...
...past operations have been characterized by unrealistic programs met by public apathy. At the same time its budgets have exceeded necessity, and Congress has slashed them by as much as half. In 1956, for example, the OCDM asked for $35 million to build air-raid shelters which the hydrogen bomb had largely outdated. And plans for mass evacuation of cities before atomic or hydrogen attack have ranged from the impractical to the absurd...