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...formally disavowing the treaty under some pretext, the Russians could then touch off a series of explosions that might swing the nuclear balance in their favor. Even without such clandestine preparations, the Kremlin could carry out tests in outer space behind the sun or the moon, under the polar icecap, or at very low atmospheric levels...
...space programs, predicted the Russians would make "spectacular efforts" in space "in the coming months." On other days last week, the President: > Named retired Navy Captain William Robert Anderson, 41, the man who in 1958 skippered the nuclear submarine Nautilus on man's first voyage under the polar icecap, to head up the not-yet-existent National Service Corps, sometimes referred to as the domestic Peace Corps. Until such time as Congress passes the President's National Service Corps bill, Anderson-no kin to Admiral George Anderson, who was fired as CNO the same day-will serve...
Noon Alarm. On one famous occasion they worked too well. One October night in 1960, as the powerful pulses from Thule's radar swept rhythmically over the icecap, back came strong reflections that showed as targets on the radar screens. This was just what BMEWS was built for. Warning of possible missile attack flashed across ice and tundra to the North American Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs; a frantic flap spread over the continent. Airbases waited for red alerts, their bombers poised on the runways. Roused out of bed at home in Moorestown, Holmes listened carefully...
...AUTONETICS, whose 1961 sales of $410 million place it among the nation's top ten electronics companies. Its specialty: inertial-navigation systems, one of which steered the nuclear submarines Nautilus and Skate under the polar icecap...
...damp Chilean glades were greenly upholstered with ferns and mosses almost exactly like those that grow in Australasia. Even swarming insects looked the same as the insects of home. How did delicate plant and insect life ever make the difficult migration across great southern oceans or the hostile icecap of Antarctica...