Word: westford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Volpe campaign caravan has circled through the state since January, spiralling ever closer to Boston. By this week--as he barnstormed through Lawrence, Lowell, Westford, and Malden--Volpe the campaigner had become a distillation of Volpe...
...think this opinion may be proved incorrect by the example of the so-called Westford Project. This was the proposal to girdle the earth with a belt of fine metal needle, thus forming an artificial ionosphere to be used for long-distance communications. The International Astronomical Union, including the U.S. delegation, condemned the Westford experiment because of its probable deleterious effect on radio astronomical observations...
Nevertheless, the experiment was carried out, and Westford scientists assured the government that the possible bad effects would be negligible--foreshadowing future statements about high altitude nuclear explosions. Perhaps unfortunately, the needles falled to orbit, so we cannot be absolutely certain that the effects would have been as bad as anticipated...
Thus, no scientific conclusions may be drawn from the Westford Project. But one can conclude that when a military project is in question, the government's scientific counsel is dominantly that of groups associated with the military. This follows from the fact that although the Westford Project was not vital to the national defense (as one might argue the nuclear test was), still the petition of the professional astronomers of the world was ignored...
...missile and nuclear submarines. M.I.T.'s Lincoln Lab worked out the U.S.'s DEW line early-warning system against attack by enemy aircraft, the SAGE system to coordinate retaliation, and the BMEWS system for warning against enemy missiles. At M.I.T.'s Millstone Hill field station at Westford, Mass., is the 84-ft. dish antenna that has bounced radar pulses off the planet Venus. In all, M.I.T. operates $50.8 million worth of installations for the Government...