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...inspection by an international commission to keep them honest. Another plan would do away with posts on Russian soil entirely, using only long-range detection instruments and on-site international inspections of suspicious blasts. This modification of the previous U.S. stand is reportedly favored by Presidential Scientific Adviser Jerome Wiesner, who found some support for his position in the disclosure last week that the U.S. had clearly detected an underground nuclear test by France on May 1 in the Hoggar Mountains of the southeastern Sahara, more than 5,000 miles away...
Jerome B. Wiesner, Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Sc.D...
Even with inspection, disarmament would be risky. According to President Kennedy's scientific adviser, Jerome B. Wiesner, the best that can be achieved is a combination of inspection techniques that would produce an "adequate likelihood" of detecting violations. For example, even if ironclad controls were accepted by each nation - inspection of such things as plant output records, manpower, ore supply and electricity consumption - could anyone be sure a would-be cheater had not hidden a stockpile of undeclared H-bombs? Even with all this data, experts estimate they might miscalculate a nation's supply to the extent...
...third powerful influence on space policy will be the President's Science Advisor, Jerome B. Wiesner, but just where that influence will be exerted is not at all clear. The report of the task force which he headed urged the strengthening of big booster projects, manned space flight, and commercial applications of space technology. But it also heavily emphasized the military aspects of the space program...
...discounted, but one day before the shot, U.S. intelligence sent an urgent alert. Although the Vostok was launched at 1:07 a.m. Washington time, and the first Russian radio announcement was delayed until 2 a.m., it was only 1:30 a.m. when the Pentagon told Presidential Science Adviser Jerome Wiesner that a big Russian bird was aloft...