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Scientific Nonchalance. E.G. & G.'s forte is mastery of "pulse techniques," by which it records the sight and shocks of a nuclear explosion in time-paring millimicro-seconds. In the recent Christmas and Johnston Island tests, 200 E.G. & G. technicians armed with $3,500,000 worth of equipment took 50,000 photographs of each of 26 explosions, shot some film at speeds of a billionth of a second. They, measured such phenomena as fireball temperatures, alpha, beta and gamma rays, eye-burn potential, and the blasts' effect on radio communication. Currently under a $25 million AEC contract...
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