Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seismic detection of underground tests were completely unreliable. The U.S. had gone into the Geneva talks 14 months before on the basis of a single seismic detection of a single underground test explosion-the Rainier shot in September 1957-but had pulled up short after the Hardtack shots in Nevada in October 1958 could not be distinguished from small earthquakes. The Russian scientists had agreed to consider the evidence. Instead, the U.S.S.R.'s Evgeny Fedorov charged in the Geneva report that it was "the brink of absurdity." Fedorov went on to charge the Western scientists with deliberate "misrepresentation . . . manipulation...
...Washington, 10,000 boys and girls from every state but Alaska and Nevada -as well as from Europe, Singapore, Jamaica and Brazil-assembled under the auspices of Youth for Christ for a three-day "Capital Teen Convention" at the National Guard Armory, under the bannered slogan: TEENS TELLING TEENS IN THE WORLD'S DECADE OF DESTINY. Layman Ted W. Engstrom of the Evangelical Free Church, president of Youth for Christ International, urged his plaid-shirted and bobby-soxed audience to write down the motto: "Christ Constantly in Command, Christ Completely in Control," and to put it into practice...
...negotiators met with the Russians and British in Geneva, proposed a system for monitoring nuclear bomb tests based on a network of 180 control stations. The U.S. has been regretting the offer ever since. Only two months later, U.S. scientists exploded a small nuclear device beneath a mesa in Nevada, which proved that such explosions were far harder to detect than the U.S. had supposed. Difficulty is that the Russians have embraced the 180-station system as if they had thought of it themselves. For months they refused even to listen to the U.S.'s new evidence. And then...
...Very disappointing," said the U.S. State Department. Chief problem is in providing a system sensitive enough to distinguish nuclear shocks from normal small earthquakes, of which thousands occur every year. Under the Russian-approved system, U.S. negotiators pointed out, the Nevada shot-a ig-kiloton explosion-would have been read as an earthquake, and therefore ruled out for inspection. New ammunition was a study made by the Rand Corp., at the suggestion of Dr. Edward Teller, director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. Rand mathematicians theorized that any underground explosion can be "decoupled" by placing...