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Leet challenged the March 4 report of Project Vela, a recent Defense Department research program of detection experiments in Nevada. The report was appproved by the Atomic Energy Commission and the State Department...
...Project Vela's conclusions, which confirm the Defense Department's 1959 and, exaggerate the problems involved," the seismologist argued...
...major difficulty confronting Project Vela was distinguishing the seismic waves caused by underground nuclear explosions from those of earthquakes. Leet was confident that a solution to this problem could be found "with proper instrumentation and research. No adequate scientific inquiry into the entire area of underground nuclear test detection has yet been made...
...policy statement. Nine concrete proposals urge that the U.S. withdraw military installations from countries bordering the U.S.S.R., proclaim that this country will not be the first to use nuclear weapons in war, refrain from giving any additional nations or alliances atomic weapons, invite inspection of its Project Vela underground tests, promote the creation of a U.N. Disarmament Agency, convert the germ warfare research center in Maryland into a U.N. world health center, urge U.N. inspection of nuclear facilities in Israel and Egypt, and repeal the Connally Reservation giving the U.S. the right to decide if international disputes involving...
...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...