Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...echo of new rumblings about disarmament negotiations, U.S. Physicist Edward Teller, "the father of the H-bomb." this week came forward with some well-chosen words of scientific caution. Writing in the January Foreign Affairs, Teller (TIME, Nov. 18) looks with knowing doubt on proposals to start disarmament by agreeing to halt tests of nuclear bombs. "It has been claimed that a nuclear test can be noticed around the world and that a ban on tests would therefore appear to be self-policing,"writes Teller. "Actually, a nuclear test is easily noticed only if it is performed in the most...
...serve and to learn have brought him into contact with experts in every field of governmental activity. One recent week, surveying the scope of U.S. missile programs and potentialities. Nixon talked to Air Force Missile Chief Bernard Schriever, Army Rockets Boss John Medaris, Army Scientist Wernher Von Braun, Physicist Edward Teller and Presidential Science Adviser Killian. That same week he surprised Dr. James G. Miller, head of the University of Michigan's Mental Health Research Institute, with his knowledge of behavioral science (Nixon is convinced that the U.S. is substantially ahead of Russia in the field). All the time...
...give its scientific forces more brains and more prestige. From Gettysburg came the announcement that the Science Advisory Committee, heretofore an adjunct of the Office of Defense Mobilization, will move its offices directly into the White House. At the same time, the committee of twelve, headed by Columbia Physicist Isidor Rabi, will take on five new members...
Like their colleagues, four of the new additions are top-rank men of science: Caltech's Physics Professor R. F. Bacher, Harvard's Nobel Prizewinning Physicist E. M. Purcell, University of California's Livermore Laboratory Director Herbert York, Harvard Chemistry Professor George B. Kistiakowsky. The fifth new member, Lieut. General (ret.) James Harold Doolittle, is a notable all-round man -engineer (doctor of science, M.I.T., 1925), topflight air commander in World War II, executive (a director and vice president of Shell Oil Co.). and one of the clearest voices in the field of defense. M.I.T...
...Johnson subcommittee got a dour estimate of U.S. strength from its first witness. In four hours of testimony, shaggy-browed, often emotional Dr. Edward Teller (TIME, Nov. 18) ran off a grim morning line on U.S. chances in the race for survival. The University of California physicist estimated that Russia is closing the gap in nuclear weapons, is about equal to the U.S. in aircraft and radar development, is ahead in ballistic missiles. Said Teller: "I would not say that the Russians caught up with us because they stole our secrets. They caught up with us because they worked harder...