Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...look as grand as the fashion ads. But there are mutterings that if it keeps up long enough, the Communists will overpower the U.S. without firing a shot. Americans will all get so skinny that the Reds will take over the country merely by sucking up the citizenry with vacuum cleaners...
...Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., spacecraft may be built largely of plastics, which will fare better than metals in the hostile outer world. Snyder and W. B. Cross of Goodyear Aircraft Corp. told an Air Force space conference in Dayton that many metals "boil away" slowly in the near-perfect vacuum of space. Plastics, which are made of long molecular chains linked and tangled together, are less volatile than metals, and therefore should last longer...
...system to detect clandestine atom bomb tests must consider tests in space. A nuclear burst in a vacuum does not form a bright fireball; it gives off very little visible light and even if it were as near as the moon, its flash might be too feeble to attract unalerted attention. Sponsors of such a test would know where and when to look for it, and they would have instruments ready, to assess the results. A sneak test of this sort would be difficult and expensive, but not impossible...
...tests above the atmosphere in 1958 taught that when a nuclear bomb explodes in a vacuum, about half of its energy goes into invisible X rays. These hit the atmosphere and make its oxygen and nitrogen fluoresce in characteristic wave lengths that can easily be distinguished from the spectrum of sunlight. When Los Alamos Physicist Donald R. Westervelt learned about this, he designed a detection system based upon it. A few dozen of his detectors spotted around the earth would be an adequate network. Some of them would always be under clear skies. In daylight they would detect...
Speaking before a small group of World Federalists at the Union, Sarker claimed that Americans are so interested in free enterprise that they cannot understand the present socialistic trends of these poorer nations. In addition to this "economic blind spot," Sarker noted an intellectual vacuum in the United States' inability to distinguish between Communism and Marxism...