Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...which AEC is spending only $4,500,000 of the cost, has been un der construction since 1956 and is sched uled to be completed this fall. It would be the first big U.S. plant with a fast-breeder reactor, the type most likely to produce competitively cheap atomic power, since it produces more atom fuel than it consumes. At AEC hearings, a group of top scientists, led by Professor Hans A. Bethe of Cornell, testified that the plant could be operated without undue risk to the public. City officials of Monroe said they welcomed the plant. AEC is expected...
...accept a check, but he usually prefers cash-in advance. Las Vegas' gaudy New Frontier once pleaded that its check was as good as anyone's. "No check is good," replied the Colonel, his eyes soft as ball bearings. "Some are pretty good, but they got an atom-bomb testing place out there in the desert. What if some feller pressed the wrong button...
...U.S.S.R. and four Communist puppet governments sat around a table in the Palais des Nations and talked disarmament (see FOREIGN NEWS), while in the next room the U.S.S.R. laid down a counterproposal -real or propaganda?-to the U.S. and Britain on the abolition of nuclear tests (see The Atom). The conferences stirred in men's minds not only the ancient dream of peace, but also the modern nightmare of annihilation...
...Case Against. Opponents of acceptance stood on firm technical and military grounds. They argued that a ban would freeze nuclear development at its current pioneering stage. It wo.uld stymie such peaceful nuclear pursuits as atom-powered space probes and massive use of atomic explosives to blast a new Alaskan harbor. It would make more difficult the already difficult job of keeping together skilled teams of scientists in AEC labs. It would stall the development of clean, small, highly mobile tactical weapons...
...industrial Northeast and North Central states. To make up the difference in defenses against manned bombers, he promised to plug gaps in the three-year-old Distant Early Warning net (DEW line), beef up the manned interceptor-the F-104 and F106 - by better radar and longer-range airborne, atom-armed Falcon missiles...