Word: testes
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Since the test stoppage came after an eleventh-hour series of small-weapons shots at the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Proving Grounds (see below), it brought no immediate shutdown of nuclear-weapons development. But the commitment, said the State Department and the Foreign Office, would be kept for one year, provided that the Russians 1) set off no nuclear explosions that could be detected by the free world's monitoring system, and 2) continued to negotiate toward a workable inspection system. It would be extended if the three nations, after setting up an inspection system, could make...
Answering Blast. The U.S. position was laid down last week, as delegates from the U.S., Britain and the U.S.S.R. got together in Geneva's Palais des Nations for the widely heralded talks on test suspension. "The U.S.,'" said Ambassador James J. Wadsworth. the U.S. delegation chief and disarmament specialist, "enters the talks in the best possible faith to make the conference a success.'' Said British delegate David Ormsby-Gore: "In a sense we are pioneers...
Warning Flag? Both Russians bore out Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' press conference forecast that Geneva's prospects looked dim. Some Western experts, said Dulles, thought they knew why. Their theory; the long, friendly talks about nuclear-test inspection systems between U.S. and Russian scientists at Geneva last summer ''opened the eyes of the Soviet Union to the fact that our own knowledge was considerably greater than theirs about nuclear weapons. They realized that they were considerably behind in this matter, and therefore they lost interest in the suspension...
...they were well rid of Strauss when he resigned as AEC head in June, his latest promotion comes as an unpleasant shock. There is no reason to honor the man whose treatment of Oppenheimer was not exactly gallant, and who has clouded the facts about atmospheric pollution and nuclear test explosions. In giving him this new position, President Eisenhower has done the country a considerable disservice, one which only the Senate can remedy...
...addition to producing new plays and those rarely seen except in college theatres, Norton said that drama groups should give those interested in acting and backstage work "an opportunity to test their talents...