Word: states
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before Secretary of State Christian Herter took off for a new round of the Geneva conference on Berlin (see FOREIGN NEWS), a bipartisan delegation from Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy marched into his office to voice some grave misgivings. The committee's worry: in spite of a technically interesting scientists' agreement last week (see SCIENCE), the U.S. seemed to be floundering around aimlessly at the other Geneva conference-the nuclear-test-ban negotiations that have dragged on since last...
...will have the military strength to launch a massive counter-strike and the morale to get the nation back on its feet. Yet, despite the urgent recommendations of the Gaither report, the Rockefeller defense report (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958) and most civil-defense experts, not a single city or state in the nation has a realistic nuclear-bomb shelter system-a system that on a national scale could save many millions of lives and perhaps make the difference between defeat and survival...
Last week New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller became the first elected official in the U.S. to come out for a compulsory statewide fallout-shelter program. Defying warnings that he was dealing with political poison. Rockefeller announced that he would urge the state legislature at its next session to back up the recommendations of his Special Task Force on Protection from Radioactive Fallout...
...state law making fallout shelters mandatory in all new buildings, including private homes, and requiring owners of existing buildings to "provide fallout protection for their occupants" by a "specified future date...
...state program to develop a cheap "survival kit" including a water container (ten gallons a person), a two-week supply of dehydrated food, candles, a battery-powered radio and a toilet container. Urgently needed, said the task force, is another survival item "not yet in existence": a cheap, accurate, simple radiation-detection device. Radiation "cannot be seen, touched, tasted or felt," and if people in shelters had no reliable way of testing whether radiation had fallen to endurable levels outside, fear and doubt could wreck their morale and impair the nation's capacity to rebound...