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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aroused strong response in many of the world's underdeveloped areas--countries which the Soviet Union is so strenuously cultivating. These underdeveloped areas, in search of higher living standards, have come to regard atomic energy as their best hope for producing the quantities of power needed for large-scale industrial development. The main function of the proposed international agency would be providing atomic training and research facilities and, above all, fissionable materials for use in experimental nuclear reactors. In short, the plan would enable underdeveloped countries to take their first halting steps toward industrial application of atomic energy. Whatever doubts...
...horrible example of nationalism defeating national interest is the legislation excluding foreign capital from oil exploitation. Geologists have estimated that oil-bearing formations underlie more than 750,000 sq. mi. of Brazilian territory, but the government-controlled oil monopoly, Petrobras, lacks the capital and technical skills to undertake large-scale exploration. So far, Brazilians have found two small fields, which between them produce 4,000 bbls. a day-about 2% of consumption. Result: last year Brazil had to spend $220 million of her hard-earned foreign exchange for imported oil products. At present, in the midst of a desperate dollar...
...diameter, but it is more radio active than the world's entire stock of refined radium. The pipe will be the star in a new kind of chemical laboratory that Standard Oil Development Co. is building at Linden, N.J. The lab. the first of its kind and scale in private industry (cost: $1,000,000), will use atomic radiation to promote chemical reactions. In preparation for the plant's completion, the cobalt pipe has been absorbing neutrons for 24-years at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Long Island...
...single cobalt radiation source, which will cost Standard more than $17,000, is not powerful enough for a full-scale production setup. If the company decides to build an atomic oil refinery, it is thinking of using a nuclear reactor as a lavish source of radiation. Its scientists hope that by that time reactors will be safe enough to trust in a populated area...
...Marshal Slessor is the author of "Strategy for the West," published in 1954, the only full scale discussion of global strategy published by a senior military official of the Allies since World...