Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work unattended for at least two years, transmitting by radio every three hours the temperature, barometric pressure, wind direction and velocity at its bleak location. Should a polar bear or an arctic fox come sniffing around, it will not be damaged by radiation. The magic fire will be underground and shielded from the world by three-quarters of a ton of lead...
Crossed Keys. The service features, on the other hand, ought to intrigue the customers: a 255-car underground garage, extension phones in the bathrooms (an extra washbasin is placed in a separate, screened-off vanity), a refrigerator-bar and an electric shoe polisher in each room. If these gimmicks sound a little too mechanical, at the expense of human service, there will also be multilingual doormen and desk clerks, and, above all, that grand old European institution, the concierge. "The European concierge," one traveler has explained, "is a combination of all-round fixer and archangel, the man who sees...
...area (40 miles by 30 miles), the AEC is testing a nuclear rocket engine, Project Rover, and a nuclear ramjet, Project Pluto (so far non-explosively), is also using chemical explosives to make studies of craters. Since most nuclear authorities agree that any further bomb testing will be done underground to avoid contaminating the atmosphere or the ocean, a force of hard-rock miners is busily digging tunnels into the mountains...
...first new set of explosions (if any are authorized) may not involve any new nuclear devices. Instead, they may be part of Project Vela, a new group whose purpose is to discover how far away underground nuclear explosions can be detected. Such tests would probably use old-style bombs, and the Russians and others might be invited to participate or observe. But on dry Broom Lake in the isolated northeast corner of the range, a 1,500-ft. tower is under construction for far more advanced testing. On its top will soon perch a small, unshielded nuclear reactor designed...
...mouth now blocked with a complex ventilating system. Four years ago a bomb exploded in that tunnel, and as the cavity that it made cooled down (both in temperature and radioactivity), scientists studied it intensively. It can now be entered without danger, is serving as a guide for future underground tests. Other tunnels, still too hot to enter, are explored chiefly by drilling...