Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article on the nuclear test debate was excellent, especially in view of the publicity given to the "Ban the Bomb Boys." For the layman, there appears to be only one choice: Should he put his faith in Edward Teller, the "father of the H-bomb," or in Linus Pauling or Edward Condon, two scientists who have so long leaned toward the left (politically) that they are no longer able to discern what is right (militarily or morally)? I prefer to trust my nuclear future to Dr. Teller...
...date was Aug. 26, 1957. The announcement from the Kremlin was heavy with meaning to the free world's defenses. The Soviet Union had test-fired its first intercontinental ballistic missile, and as days went by, Russia's Khrushchev pushed a new form of missile diplomacy, pouring it into every cocked ear at every diplomatic coop that Europe might become "a veritable cemetery," and that the U.S. was "just as vulnerable...
...onslaught-SAC planes have never reached their Fail Safe points in an emergency scramble caused by unidentifiable radar blips, let alone flown beyond Fail Safe points. This is the basis of the U.S.'s denial of the U.S.S.R.'s charges. But SAC constantly scrambles on real and test alerts; so realistic are SAC scrambles that SAC crews always head out toward Fail Safe point not knowing whether their mission is for test or the real thing. And the U.S. has even put SAC alert crews into the air deliberately to reinforce U.S. diplomacy at precise pressure points...
Seismographic Evidence. Columbia's boyish-looking Jay Orear, 32, who has almost completed a major Columbia survey on inspection for disarmament, challenged Teller on the technicalities. "A nuclear-weapons-test ban is one of the easiest to inspect," he said, and seismographic evidence proved it. Inspecting nuclear production "is most difficult.'' Yet the U.S.'s package plan tied the one to the other and made "the last step" the prerequisite for "the first step." Orear quoted widespread opinion that the whole package plan might be "a gimmick to prevent agreement." A wholly workable international inspection system...
...disarmament position "to date." But Strauss's testimony was overshadowed when, during questions, Missouri's Symington revealed the gist of Presidential Adviser Bethe's 2½ hours of testimony behind closed doors. Bethe's conclusion: 1) inspection of a ban on tests is wholly feasible, 2) agreement between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. on stopping tests is therefore feasible-and desirable. Symington paraphrased Bethe's conclusion: "He personally feels that we should go ahead with a test suspension without tying it to production...