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...medical team from the Naval Medical Research Institute and the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory reported on the radioactive fallout that occurred over the Marshall Islands area in the spring of 1954 following a thermonuclear-bomb test explosion. Findings: 1) the blast apparently did no permanent damage to Marshallese; 2) skin lesions and loss of hair developed in 90% of the group two weeks after exposure, but both conditions disappeared quickly...
...marriage, Elements 99 and 100 have been belatedly recognized. In a letter to the Physical Review, groups of scientists at the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory told how they separated the two new elements out of radioactive debris collected from Test Mike, the thermonuclear device exploded in the Pacific in November...
...plutonium with neutrons in the Arco, Idaho materials-testing reactor (TIME, March 8, 1954). but the news of their earlier and more violent birth was not declassified until this week. Probable reason: no one was supposed to know that UJ-238, which can be made to fission in a thermonuclear ex plosion, was a factor in Test Mike...
...appropriate setting for Scientist Libby. As a nuclear scientist on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, he is the man who unwrapped the stark facts about nuclear war. A "thermonuclear weapon" of the type that was exploded by the U.S. in the Pacific last year, said Scientist Libby in his famous "fallout speech" last June, can sprinkle death-dealing radioactive dust over an area of 100,000 square miles. "An area so large," he added dryly, ";that evacuation may be a bit impractical." As the AEC's "vice president in charge of atoms for peace," Libby is the American responsible...
COLUMNIST WALTER LIPPMANN: WITHIN recent weeks it has beW come clear that all [the] principal [world] powers are in basic agreement on three general propositions. The first is that war, which now means thermonuclear war, is impossible. The second is that while the great powers must not wage war, they cannot now make the concessions. The third proposition is that, unable to fight and unable to settle, they must nevertheless find ways to relax the. most severe and dangerous of the tensions. Under the constraints of the military stalemate, all the principal powers are impelled to stay more or less...