Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khrushchev continued to stage nuclear tests in the atmosphere, President Kennedy responded by announcing that the U.S. would resume its own tests underground. "We must now take those steps which prudent men find essential," he declared. "We have no other choice in fulfillment of the responsibilities of the United States Government to its own citizens and to the security of other free nations." Directed by AEC Chairman Glenn T. Seaborg, underground tests in Nevada were scheduled to start within a few days...
Khrushchev brushed aside as mere "propaganda" Kennedy's request for a Russian-U.S. ban on fallout-producing atmospheric tests. At week's end, the U.S.S.R. formally rejected the Western proposal to restrict testing to underground efforts. Khrushchev called for negotiations with the U.S., said the talks would be "fruitful" only if President Kennedy came to the conference table prepared "to reach agreement on the conclusion of a German peace treaty, on giving West Berlin the status of a free city, and especially on the more important problem of disarmament." In other words, the talks would be "fruitful...
Arriving in Miami, a Cuban underground agent code-named "Lucas" called for more arms and bombs to step up sabotage against Fidel Castro's regime. Carlos Prio Socarrás, a onetime President of Cuba, talked of forming a government in exile. José Miró Cardona, head of the ill-starred Cuban Revolutionary Council, was still shuttling back and forth to Washington, conferring with Kennedy aides. But for all the anti-Castro shadowboxing, the ordinary Cuban exile is becoming resigned to the idea that Castro, may be around a while longer. By last week, most of the approximately...
Eating not Plotting. As examples, they had only to look at some erstwhile underground leaders, who now spend less time fanning revolts than trying to feed themselves. Manuel Ray. former coordinator in the U.S. of the promising M.R.P. underground in Cuba, was hunting an engineer's job, and his second-in-command works for a freight-shipping company...
...High Tests. If the Russians were trying to hide their tests, they would have held them underground. Underground explosions send no ordinary radio signals or barometric waves. They are invisible to radar, and they scatter no telltale fallout. But they do create powerful earth waves that travel in the earth's crust and deep through its interior. A powerful underground explosion registers on seismographs all over the world, and smaller explosions are detected at shorter distances. The fault of this system is that weak bomb waves are hard to distinguish from the waves of natural earthquakes. Some experts claim...