Word: moratorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international controls-and the ban has been extended to Dec. 31. In U.S. atomic weapons laboratories and in the Pentagon last week, there were no doubts at all that the U.S. should get on with its testing program as soon as possible. Reason: the nuclear-test moratorium is now damaging the nation's nuclear-deterrent power...
...second generation of solid-fuel missiles, designed for mass production and mass deployment through the mid-1960s, must have smaller, higher-yield thermonuclear warheads to fit their smaller nose cones. The Navy's Polaris engineers managed to test their bird's initial warhead just before the moratorium, but could not test its higher-yield follow-up warhead; the Air Force's Minuteman (see SCIENCE) and the Army's Pershing are being developed at a cost of millions to fit warheads that have not been tested, and, under the moratorium, may not be. All these tests could...
...detected. Friendly troops could enter the area shortly after the bomb had been used. And although the Soviets, to judge from published Russian scientific papers, have the capability for the neutron bomb, the U.S. cannot proceed from theoretical to test stage on the neutron bomb because of the test moratorium...
Unless the Russians start making meaningful concessions at Geneva, the Administration plans to move quietly toward a resumption of nuclear testing in 1960. There will be no "big bang" at year's end to signalize the end of the moratorium; that suggestion has been rejected as "overly flamboyant." There will be no breakoff at Geneva, nor a breakoff from allies; the U.S. is prepared to go along with a British plan for joint U.S.-U.S.S.R.-British underground tests to improve detection techniques. Also, present plans are that the U.S. will bow to the worldwide outcry against radioactive fallout...
...prospects for a nuclear test ban agreement at Geneva become progressively brighter (and sporadically dimmer), it seems apparent that Western negotiators, hastening to score a propaganda victory and, possibly, contribute to a healthier world, have overlooked a vital point in the mechanics of a moratorium. Under the partial draft treaty, as it now reads, all testing will stop, even those explosions which may be necessary for the continuation of experiments in the peaceful application of atomic energy...