Word: icecaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Floating Shelf. Unlike the northern polar region, which is ocean covered with ice, the area around the South Pole is a large land mass above which a thick icecap can form. During relatively nonglaciated periods such as the present, Dr. Wilson calculates, ice builds up on Antarctica, and the southern icecap reaches higher and higher. The top of the ice remains very cold, but the bot om is warmed slightly by heat escaping from the interior of the earth. Finally, the combined effect of pressure from the thickening cap and geothermal warming below melts the ice at the bottom. This...
Antarctica's vast (5,300,000 sq. mi.) expanse, comprising 93% of the world's ice, offers an unsurpassed observatory for study of the oceans, which would rise 200 ft. if, as some predict, the icecap should melt in some far distant age. Scientists have already learned a great deal about its climate and its far-reaching effect on the world's weather. Oceanographers are studying Antarctica's seas, which are among the world's most fertile areas...
...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...