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...1950s, Warren, as part of a proposal todevelop an atomic-powered plane, considered anexperiment which would determine the radiationthreshold of humans. To develop the craft, heconsidered the possibility of using prisoners astest subjects. The Atomic Energy Commissionultimately denied the proposal on ethical grounds...
According to a report in the Boston Herald, Dr.Robert S. Stone of the University of CaliforniaMedical School, a scientist working with Warren,proposed that he and Warren use prisoners as testsubjects for their atomic-plane project, addingthat convicts are "likely to remain in one placewhere they can be observed for a great years...
...only scratching the surface inuncovering the documents on this, but all of thepeople involved in nuclear-powered airplaneproject were aware of the ethical concerns becausethe Nuremburg trials were going on," said Dr.Gilbert F. Whittemore, who in 1988 published an30-page article on the proposal for theatomic-powered plane and the ethical debate overhuman experimentation which ensued...
...encounter with angels are among the most reluctant to discuss them. Yet there is an uncanny similarity in the stories and a moving conviction behind them. Very often the recognition comes only in retrospect. A person is in immediate danger -- the car stalled in the deadly snowstorm, the small plane lost in the fog, the swimmer too far from shore. And emerging from the moment's desperation comes some logical form of rescue: a tow-truck driver, a voice from the radio tower, a lifeguard. But when the victim is safe and turns to give thanks, the rescuer is gone...
...keeping ice off wings. NASA, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are developing airliners that would fly hundreds of passengers at up to 3.2 times the speed of sound. (The Concorde carries up to 100 passengers at twice the speed of sound.) And the agency wants to build a supersonic plane that would take off horizontally, launch satellites into space and return to earth...