Word: lapp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, Dr. Ralph E. Lapp questioned the value of designating makeshift shelters in the central cities and stocking them with food and water. Such a policy fails to give any protection against the blast or its heat wave, he declared. Without such protection, the chances for survival within six miles of the blast are very small...
...true that you cannot survive nuclear attack," Lapp maintained. Nevertheless survival depends on a realistic, quantitative assessment of the effects of fallout. "Once a nuclear war breaks out, radioactivity may well become the great dictator of human behavior," he stated...
...weapons we have now are formidable indeed, the weapon we have today in the hatching stage is even more formidable. The weapon, which is being developed and is, as they say, in the portfolio of our scientists and designers, is a fantastic weapon." (U.S. Atomic Physicist Ralph E. Lapp guessed that the Russians might be planning an H-bomb to orbit the earth indefinitely, ready on signal to plunge down on any terrestrial target...