Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sizes, should have a style to match their subject. Sometimes the news and the circumstances mold a story into the form of a novelette, especially when there is an edge of mystery and a gathering of men of wealth, women of beauty, and rapacious figures from the underground to duel over one of the world's great fortunes. The locale should be evocative: cafes on the Champs-Elysees, sun-drenched days at Cap d'Antibes, intrigue and attempted murder on the war-ravaged reaches of the North African coast. For such a true story, involving those standbys...
...longstanding doubts about the Eisenhower-Dulles disarmament policy came to a boil last month when a panel of U.S. scientists who had found that detection of nuclear tests was dependable -the scientific underpinning of the Eisenhower-Dulles policy -reversed themselves and admitted that underground blasts even up to Hiroshima size were not detectable (TIME, Jan. 12). Thus the Russians could presumably cheat on any agreement at will. AEC Chairman John McCone, onetime (1950-51) Air Force Under Secretary, decided to submit to Secretary Dulles, through proper channels, an interim plan based on the principle that the U.S. should agree...
...international Conference of Experts that met in Geneva last summer concluded that a worldwide system of 180 inspection stations could detect nearly all underground nuclear tests. Any explosion of even the modest energy of 5 kilotons, they figured, could be distinguished from the noise made by small earthquakes and other natural causes. Only about 100 seismic "events" a year would be borderline cases. These could be followed up and checked by other means...
...weeks ago the U.S. Government announced that new information has cast doubt on the effectiveness of the 180-station system. Last week the U.S. Department of Defense released the data that led to this conclusion. To measure the seismic effects of underground tests, 16 special seismographs were set up in a line extending from the Nevada atomic proving ground to Maine, 2.500 miles away...
...stations listened attentively during October while the AEC made underground tests in faraway Nevada. The rock waves came through all right, but not quite as strongly as had been anticipated. At distances above 700 miles, only explosions of more than 20 kilotons could be identified clearly as manmade. To sum up, said the panel, the 180-station detection system might be confronted by 1,500, not 100, natural seismic shocks a year that could not be distinguished from an underground test explosion. This number would presumably overburden the checking system as presently outlined...