Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doubts. The President's advisers carried with them to Augusta new evidence to reinforce their conclusions. It was the latest 41-page report on technical discussions among the U.S., British and Russian scientists at Geneva on the feasibility of checking underground test shots...
...this report, U.S. and British scientists led by the U.S.'s Dr. James Fisk and Britain's Sir William Penney set down their revised findings (TIME, Jan. 12, 1959 et seq.) that known techniques of seismic detection of underground tests were completely unreliable. The U.S. had gone into the Geneva talks 14 months before on the basis of a single seismic detection of a single underground test explosion-the Rainier shot in September 1957-but had pulled up short after the Hardtack shots in Nevada in October 1958 could not be distinguished from small earthquakes. The Russian scientists...
...prospects for agreement have been injured by the recent unwillingness on the part of the politically guided Soviet experts to give serious consideration to the effectiveness of seismic techniques for the detection of underground nuclear explosions," it read. "Indeed, the atmosphere of the talks has been clouded by the intemperate and technically unsupportable Soviet annex to the report...
...wrote The Rebel in 1956, picturing man as the victim of a political and social world in which even his saviors seek to debase and enslave him. But he required that man revolt. He himself participated in the French underground during World War II, and in 1957 he quoted the words of Richard Hilary: "We were fighting this lie in the name of a half-truth." But he went on to say" "There are even occasions when a lie must be fought in the name of a quarter-truth. The quarter-truth...is called freedom. And freedom is the road...
Word leaks from University Hall that Harvard has received an offer from the Defense Department to rent land under the stadium for secret underground atomic tests. "The University is not considering the offer," President Pusey admits, during a conference in his Hayes St. apartment. "It is inconsistent with the University's tradition of scientific amateurism. Besides, they would probably rip up the playing field...