Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week long a cold wind hurled grey clouds out of the Northwest and across the bleak Atomic Proving Grounds in Nevada. The Atomic Energy Commission, well aware of public concern about radioactive fallout (TIME, Feb. 28), kept on postponing the big blast. But at 5:45 one morning, it touched off a small...
...report on the perils of fallout and the new tests on the Nevada desert last week sharply illustrated the key points of U.S. atomic weapon policy...
...atomic testing grounds on the Nevada desert last week, fallout was a key consideration. For four days in a row, the AEC postponed the scheduled first shot in a new series of tests-the explosion of an "atomic device" atop a 500-ft. tower. On the first scheduled test day, weather calculations showed that the radioactive cloud from a dawn explosion would be passing over the town of Caliente, Nev. (pop. 1,000), about 50 miles away, at about the time schoolchildren were standing on the street corners waiting for buses. For the next three days, there were similar problems...
Radiation Spotters. The National Bureau of Standards has worked out for the Atomic Energy Commission a handy system for following radioactive clouds as they drift cross-country. Throughout a large region around AEC's Nevada testing ground are radiation detectors perched on poles. Each detector has a telephone number, so AEC can dial it and ask it how much radiation it feels in its vicinity. The detector answers with an audible tone whose pitch (frequency) indicates the intensity of radiation. By calling many detectors, AEC can tell just where its clouds are drifting...
...After exposing 42 common drugs to blast and radiation during the 1953 Nevada A-bomb tests, the Food & Drug Administration released its findings: all the drugs were unharmed except two-insulin suffered a 10% loss of potency. Vitamin B a loss of 50%. Added the FDA: any drug found in an undamaged container, 1,000 yards or more from ground zero, can be considered safe for immediate...