Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nuclear Tests: In his sharpest specific foreign-policy departure from the Administration so far, Rockefeller has urged that the U.S. resume nuclear-weapons tests (banned by the Administration in October 1958, with the ban probably to be extended beyond the Dec. 31 deadline). The U.S. should continue tests, says Rockefeller, until it works out a test-ban agreement with the Soviet Union that carries a dependable detection system...
Aside from its sentimentality, the worst of the film's offenses is its unreality. Though Kramer & Co. predict that On the Beach will act "as a deterrent to further nuclear armaments," the picture actually manages for most of its length to make the most dangerous conceivable situation in human history seem rather silly and science-fictional. The players look half dead long before the fallout gets them. But what could any actors make of a script that imagines the world's end as a scene in which Ava Gardner stands and wistfully waves goodbye as Gregory Peck sails...
...world's most powerful atom smasher is in neither the U.S. nor in Russia; it is in Switzerland. In the rolling countryside three miles northwest of Geneva, the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) has built a great new proton synchrotron designed to produce 25 billion electron volts. Half buried in a hillside, it is a huge doughnut of magnet steel, 656 ft. in outside diameter. Last week British Physicist John B. Adams, chief of CERN's Proton Synchrotron Division, ordered slight corrections in the magnetic field, watched as the protons sped faster and faster around their circular...
Aware that modern nuclear research is too expensive for any but the world's giant powers, twelve of Europe's nations* launched CERN in 1954 as a scientific venture in international cooperation. CERN's most ambitious project so far is the big accelerator. It cost $35 million, took four years to build, ran into many obstacles. Perhaps the toughest was the discovery that the ground near Geneva trembles measurably every month or so. "It was found," says CERN's Canadian-born Jack MacCabe, "that these tremors were caused by Atlantic storm waves pounding on the beaches...
...right-wing alternative to middle-of-the-roaders like President Eisenhower and the new Nixon, at least on fundamental issues like loyalty control and East-west negotiations. Neither family background nor efficient handling of New York state problems should obscure this fact. The incidental agreement with his views on nuclear testing on the part of Dean Acheson and Harry Truman is therefore less significant than the more basic congruence of his views with those of Teller, Strauss, and Bill Buckley. Derek Hudson, Arlington, Mass...