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Resigned & Hopeful. Fortifying senatorial wariness toward the test ban treaty were doubts voiced by U.S. scientists. "Very serious questions have to be resolved about this treaty," said Physicist Edward Teller. "I'm inclined to believe that it has extremely great danger." Some scientists hold that the Russians could cheat the ban by setting off small explosions in the atmosphere below the "limit of observability." Nuclear tests in outer space are also possible, though the U.S. is well along in the development of methods for detecting nuclear explosions in space (see SCIENCE...
...Baron von Munchhausen was born on May 11, 1720. He was a page at the court of Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig, later served as lieutenant in Riga and advanced to captain in the regiment of Peter III of Russia in 1750. He was a great soldier, hunter and teller of tales. He died on Feb. 22, 1797. He is buried in Boden-werder, which to this day calls itself the "Munchhausen Stadt...
After the scientist obtains knowledge, Teller said, he has the task of "saying clearly what he has found, what his findings mean, and how this additional power can be used. Once these points are clearly and simply explained, his responsibility is ended...
...Teller stressed that his own more restricted view of the scientist's responsibility does not make it less heavy. "In way it may be greater, for others cannot do these things; we scientists must them or the job will be undone...
...scientists claimed the responsibility telling the public what was good for Teller maintained, the world would returning to the conception of Plato's guardians...