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Duty & Faith. Nowhere in the article does Teller withdraw or modify his testimony about Oppenheimer before the AEC's security board when he said: "I would feel personally more secure if public matters would rest in other hands" (than Oppenheimer...
...AEC's computations are based on the worst possible conditions, i.e., they assume that no one would take protective measures. Paradoxically, old and simple steps are highly effective against the new and horrible peril. Taking shelter in an old-fashioned Kansas cyclone cellar with a 3-ft. ceiling of earth until the fallout is over will reduce the immediate radiation absorbed by a human being to a safe level, even in the worst fallout area...
Weather-Plagued Test. Washington's report on fallout was prompted by two main considerations. President Eisenhower and the AEC wanted to re-emphasize the need for 1) civil defense in the U.S., and 2) a continued campaign for realistic international control of atomic weapons...
...atomic testing grounds on the Nevada desert last week, fallout was a key consideration. For four days in a row, the AEC postponed the scheduled first shot in a new series of tests-the explosion of an "atomic device" atop a 500-ft. tower. On the first scheduled test day, weather calculations showed that the radioactive cloud from a dawn explosion would be passing over the town of Caliente, Nev. (pop. 1,000), about 50 miles away, at about the time schoolchildren were standing on the street corners waiting for buses. For the next three days, there were similar problems...
Radiation Spotters. The National Bureau of Standards has worked out for the Atomic Energy Commission a handy system for following radioactive clouds as they drift cross-country. Throughout a large region around AEC's Nevada testing ground are radiation detectors perched on poles. Each detector has a telephone number, so AEC can dial it and ask it how much radiation it feels in its vicinity. The detector answers with an audible tone whose pitch (frequency) indicates the intensity of radiation. By calling many detectors, AEC can tell just where its clouds are drifting...