Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomblet, packing the wallop of 1,700 tons of TNT, exploded 800 ft. underground on the AEC's Nevada proving grounds, opened up a new vista for the peaceful uses of atomic explosives (see SCIENCE). But the prospect of the bright atomic future stirred up less interest in Washington than a dispute over how far away an underground A-bomblet's shock wave can be detected. Reason: the ability to detect or conceal a test explosion has a vital bearing on the growing debate over whether the U.S. should accept Russia's proposal for a suspension...
Production Cuts. To bring production into line with current demand, nearly all the major producers have shut down some of their mines. Kennecott is cutting back its U.S. production by 12%. Anaconda has sliced its Chilean production 10%, after cutting its Nevada mine output 16%. Phelps Dodge recently announced a 9% cut at its Arizona properties, representing a cumulative decrease of 22% since October 1956. Two giant foreign producers, the Rhodesian Selection Trust and the Belgian Congo's Union Minière du Haut Katanga have also trimmed operations...
...hours after jettisoning his third wife in a Nevada court, money-laden Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 58, took a fourth: Phoenix Socialite Mary Lou Hosford, 32, mother of four and star of a Whitney-produced movie titled The Missouri Traveler. Sonny Whitney wept at the wedding. Earlier he had celebrated his divorce decree by pounding his chest and exulting: "I'm a free man." But as far as the State of New York and wife No. 3, onetime singer and airline receptionist Eleanor Searle Whitney, were concerned, Multimillionaire Whitney was mixed up: two months ago a New York...
...Violent Action Committee has announced its intention to halt nuclear tests in a letter to President Eisenhower and United Nations officials. Lawrence Scott, leader of the Nevada protest, said the committee is working on plans to send a delegation to the Soviet Union. "We desire to bring to the Russian people the same moral demand to stop preparation for nuclear war," he said...
...deflected by enemy countermeasures. Most promising experimental Air Force air-to-air missile: the Douglas Genie, a non-guided atomic missile that can kill at near-miss range of half a mile or more by the brute force of its explosion. Genie has been test-fired successfully in Nevada...