Word: detectably
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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That depends on the kind of test. A test conducted on the surface of the earth or in the atmosphere is relatively easy to detect: it gives oft radiation that can be detected at great distances and in minute quantities. But special difficulties arise with tests in outer space or underground. Testing in outer space is largely a theoretical possibility, but underground testing raises troublesome detection problems here and now. Neither fallout nor radiation escapes, and the only way to detect the test is to use seismographic instruments to pick up the earth tremors. Since there is no sure...
...thought so when it entered in the Geneva conference in October 1948, but learned in the Hardtack underground test series in Nevada in September 1958 that no detection system using known methods could be depended upon to detect explosions of less than 19 kilotons...
...police the ban with a global network of long-range seismographs, plus international teams of inspectors to probe any suspicious earth tremors on the spot. But the U.S. would exempt all underground tests of less than 19 kilotons (about one Hiroshima bomb), because they are nearly impossible to detect...
...controllable tests. In addition, he suggested that all powers "voluntarily ban, for 'four or five years,'" the low-yield underground tests that could not be monitored. Meanwhile, the Soviets would support the U.S. call for an all-out drive to develop seismic methods to detect such elusive blasts. For all its pitfalls, the bid seemed to contain two Soviet concessions: that small tests would not have to be banned permanently, and an admission that the control system needs to be improved...
...acid bath left Riesel in a dim world of shadows. The unimpaired retinas of both eyes receive vague images, projected through scar tissue as through frosted glass. Both lenses are gone. He can detect violent movements, distinguish a truck from a car. But to tell time he must feel the hands of his watch; when he is dining at the Men's Bar in the Biltmore, a favorite haunt, friends must help him find the hamburger on his plate -and sometimes even the plate...