Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiery debate over whether the U.S. should halt nuclear tests is flaring up as the nation gets ready for this summer's tests at Eniwetok. (Somehow it never seems to flare when the Russians are testing.) Last week, as Washington waited for Russia to strike the propaganda pose of unilaterally halting its own tests, the British Labor Party's Hugh Gaitskell, a likely future Prime Minister, called upon Britain to declare a unilateral test ban of its own. In St. Louis, Washington University's left-leaning Physicist Edward U. Condon predicted that because of radioactive fallout from...
This week CBS's Edward R. Murrow devoted an extra-long See It Now, a full 90 minutes, to nuclear-test hazards. Among the scientists crying alarm on the TV screen: Caltech's Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling, who last January presented to the U.N. a stop-the-tests petition signed by 9,235 U.S. and foreign scientists, including three dozen Nobel laureates. Pauling was balanced off against Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby, a distinguished nuclear chemist himself, who declared that "hazards from fallout are limited" and that nuclear tests are needed to lessen the "awful threat...
Then Washington braced for Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's announcement this week before a cheering joint session of the Supreme Soviet that the U.S.S.R. will unilaterally suspend nuclear tests. The move will serve the double purpose for Russia of making-peace propaganda for the credulous and avoiding the bothersome problem of the inspection system needed to make any test suspension worth more than a tinker's curse...
Edward Teller shares the desire for peace, but he doubts whether halting tests would bring it any nearer. He is convinced that the Russians would evade any no-test or disarmament agreement, unilateral or otherwise, and that absolutely foolproof detection of tests is impossible. On this point he is apparently more skeptical than President Eisenhower's scientific advisers. Said the President at his press conference last week: While there is "a little field for uncertainty," it should be possible, with "proper inspectional facilities," to detect "any sizable test...
...injection of cancer cells into healthy bodies (TIME, Feb. 25, 1957), Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute again sought volunteers at the Ohio Penitentiary, found 52 takers, many of them urged on by Cleveland Osteopath and Convicted Wife-Slayer Samuel Sheppard, who offered his own arm for the test, was accepted...