Word: leet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Purcell claimed Leet had been offered a chance to present a detailed scientific to high Administration officials but had refused to do so. "All Washington is not out to sabotage Professor Leet's inspection system, or to get contracts for themselves to investigate seismic shock waves." Purcell said he had made the statement to clear up possible "misconceptions" about Leet's case...
...Leet said he was sorry the subject had been broached, and that he had tried to avoid it during the lecture. "But I would like to go on the record," he said," as saying that I have not been misinterpreted, misunderstood, or misquoted by the CRIMSON, or the Boston Traveler...
...article describing Leet's hypothesis will appear in the latest issue of the Scientific American, out this week. It is Leet's thesis that the pattern of shock waves radiated by a nuclear blast are very different from those of earthquakes and other natural phenomena...
...underground blast sets up only compression or "P" waves, with very little of the shear and surface ("S") waves that normally accompany a natural underground disturbance. As a result, the seismographs detect only what Leet terms "the lonesome P." an energetic compression wave which lacks the shear and surface waves that usualy follow...
According to Leet, the lone P created "a unique and unmistakable criterion" of a nuclear detonation. He noted that the waves showed great penetrating power, and may be detected as for as halfway around the earth from the point of the explosion...