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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absence of such changes in stars eclipsed by the moon has long been offered as evidence that the moon has no atmosphere, or at least none that could be detected by instruments that use light. This negative report has now been changed slightly. In Britain's New Scientist, Physicist Bruce Elsmore of Cambridge University tells how the new technique of radio astronomy has detected and measured a very thin gas that surrounds the moon...
...Toronto, Bullen renewed his plea for scientific explosions. This time he got a part of what he wanted. Dr. Willard F. Libby, scientist-commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, wired him that the AEC will explode this week a smallish atomic charge 800 ft. below the surface of a Nevada mountainside. Libby told the time (Sept. 14, 10 a.m. Eastern daylight-saving time) and place (North 890600 and East 635000 on the Nevada state grid system). If there is a delay of more than two minutes in firing the shot. the test will be postponed for 24 hours...
...will probably launch a trial earth satellite some time this fall, perhaps in October. Speaking last week before a meeting of the International Scientific Radio Union, which drew delegates from 23 nations to the University of Colorado in Boulder, the Navy's Dr. John P. Hagen, civilian scientist, gave the most complete report yet on U.S. plans to launch a covey of man-made moons in the International Geophysical Year (June 30, 1957 through...
...news crackles out of Washington into headlines; sometimes it comes more quietly, between the hard covers of an important book. This week TIME appraises Political Scientist Henry A. Kissinger's Nuclear Weapons arid Foreign Policy, a hard-hitting independent audit of the U.S.-Communist struggle. Scholar Kissinger presents a provocative array of ideas on U.S. diplomatic and military policy. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Cold War & the Small...
...Pentagon, the State Department, the White House, top U.S. policymakers are earnestly debating a new book, a brilliant, independent analysis of the nation's post war diplomatic and military struggle with Communism. Title : Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (Harper; $5). Author: Political Scientist Henry A. Kissinger, 34, associate director of Harvard's new Center for International Affairs, a policy consultant to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, wartime Army intelligence special ist. Heart of Kissinger's analysis: Americans must drastically revise their hopes for Communist redemption, e.g., through disarmament, their fears of all-out war, and their...