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...listens. Catastrophes proliferate. His father, who befriended Hitler during their student days in Vienna, expires in a blizzard, muttering "Mama." And Mama dies from tumors engendered by a radioactive mantelpiece. In his home town, a neutron bomb is accidentally exploded. The townsfolk die. The buildings remain...
...government-owned Pinellas Plant in St. Petersburg, Fla.--which G.E. runs for a yearly fee of more than $2 million--company employees design, develop and produce neutron generators, testing devices and other "special electronic and mechanical components" for the U.S. nuclear weapons program, says the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) in a recent report on ethical questions related to G.E.'s nuclear work...
...which was laid by the Center Administration discussion of limited nuclear war, that it's winnable discussion by the Reagan Administration, the Carter Administration put forth [an] Presidential Directive 59, the limited nuclear war doctrine. The introduction of a new series of weapons systems into the public arena the neutron bomb again, components for that were manufactured under the Carter Administration's auspices. And then Haig's discussion before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in December of the warning-shot idea...Following the European protests, then followed by Reagan's limited war discussions, it just coalesced...
...government-owned Pinellas Plant in St. Petersburg. Fla, which G.E. runs for a yearly fee of more than $2 million--company employees design, develop and produce neutron generators, testing devices and other "special electronic and mechanical components" for the U.S. nuclear weapons program, says the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) in a recent report on ethical questions related to G.E.'s nuclear work...
DIED. Merle Tuve, 80, physicist whose discoveries opened the way to radar and nuclear energy; in Bethesda, Md. More than 50 years ago, Tuve noted that short-pulse radio waves reflected off the ionosphere, which provided the theoretical underpinning for radar. In 1933 he confirmed the existence of the neutron and was also able to measure the bonding forces in atomic nuclei. During World War II, he organized development of the proximity fuse for antiaircraft shells, enabling defenders to increase greatly their accuracy in combating German V-1 buzz bombs and Japanese kamikaze plane attacks...