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...untold account of how Project Argus was hastily organized last summer to beat President Eisenhower's deadline for suspending nuclear tests, and the perilous and secret voyage of the Norton Sound around Cape Horn under forced draft to fire the rockets 300 miles into the sky over the South Atlantic, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, on the Voyage of the Norton Sound...
...explanation, in diagrams and prose, of the scientific reasoning that led to the gigantic experiment. Science Editor Jonathan Norton Leonard describes the intricate mechanics of what happened as a shell of electrons enveloped the earth, explores what is known and not yet told of the scientific implications, and provides an intimate look at the remarkable self-taught physicist who conceived Project Argus. See SCIENCE, Veil Around the World and Up from the Elevator...
...broad-beamed U.S. Navy missile-test ship Norton Sound pulled away from her dock at Port Hueneme, Calif, shortly after dusk one day last August, a dockhand bellowed to Captain Arthur Gralla, the skipper: "What time tomorrow ya coming back, captain?" Yelled Gralla in reply: "I'll let you know." To all appearances, Norton Sound was off on another of her one-day, routine, rocket-testing trips to the Navy's offshore test range. But Gralla knew, even before opening the sealed orders in his cabin, that Norton Sound would not be docking at Port Hueneme (pronounced...
Last week, nearly eight months after Norton Sound (a 15,000-ton converted seaplane tender) steamed out of Port Hueneme, the world finally learned where she went and what she did. Warily, the Defense Department confirmed the New York Times's story (see PRESS) that the missile ship had fired three nuclear-armed rockets 300 miles into space in what one enthusiast called "the greatest scientific experiment ever conducted." If it was not quite that, it was certainly one of history's most spectacular scientific experiments. Its name: Project Argus. The glowing accounts of the scientific results...
...questions were even more urgent than Captain Gralla knew when Norton Sound set off on Project Argus: two 100-mile-high atomic explosions carried out by the U.S. in August at Johnston Island in the mid-Pacific caused heavy interference with radio and radar over a distance of 700 miles...