Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After three hours and 19 minutes of desultory debate, the U.S. Senate last week ratified the Paris agreements for German rearmament and entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The vote was 76 to 2 (Nevada's Republican Senator George Malone and North Dakota's Republican Senator William Langer...
...little amendments I might propose." Delaware Democrat J. Allen Frear and Republicans Eugene Millikin of Colorado, Edward Martin of Pennsylvania and Ralph Flanders of Vermont are, at best, lukewarm toward the bill and at worst, bitterly opposed. Louisiana Democrat Russell Long is "almost ioo%" for the bill, but Nevada Republican George Malone is 100% against it. Other views...
Last week on its Nevada proving ground the AEC tried something different: it exploded an underground bomb, its first subsurface bomb since a little-publicized experiment...
...Radioactive fallout from the Nevada tests has not been serious, but senseless fallout jitters are getting more so. Last week an Oakland, Calif, householder reported his lawn covered with radioactive ash. Civil-defense technicians came running, found the "ash'' to be a yellow film of acacia pollen...
...bomb's three threats to human life (heat, blast and gamma rays), the heat radiation reaches farthest with full killing effect. Its rays, however, cannot penetrate opaque substances. The Chemical Corps has proved by experiments in Nevada that dense carbon smoke screens off most of the heat. Such smoke can be generated in enormous quantities by burning coal or oil improperly in industrial furnaces. So when the warning comes, General Creasy suggests, smoking chimneys should draw a black blanket over the target city. Gamma rays, of course, will pass through smoke as if it were not there...