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Both the Pentagon and the AEC are sure that no nuclear test has been exploded in space since the first detector satellites were tossed into orbit. Their instruments would have detected even a small (20 kilotons) explosion 100 million miles away and distinguished its effects from all kinds of natural radiation. This is believed to be a modest estimate of their capabilities. "How much better we can do now," said an AEC official, "we're not telling...
...Weinman concluded, and he should have disqualified himself. While the trial was under way, the presiding judge confided to Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, among others, that Sheppard was "guilty as hell." Contrary to settled law, he allowed the Cleveland police to testify that Sheppard had refused to take a lie-detector test, then failed to instruct the jury that they should disregard this testimony in their decision. Finally, even while the jurors were deliberating, they were allowed to phone their friends. No court official knew what was said...
...metal-mesh enclosure that blocks out most outside electrical disturbances. As the subject chews and drinks in his static-free environment, his tooth transmitter gives out a signal every time two spots of gold on the chewing surfaces of two opposing teeth come together. In addition, a muscle-tension detector attached to the skin of his jaw is connected to an electromyograph. The signals from the chewing teeth and the muscle-tension record of the electromyograph are picked up by a receiver and recorded on tape before being translated into graphs. Some subjects have been wired for sound in their...
...detected until 1956 when Physicists Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan Jr., of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, set up a monstrous apparatus near the Atomic Energy Commission's Savannah River reactor, which looses vast floods of neutrinos. A few times each hour while the reactor was working, the detector registered an "event." This meant that a single neutrino, out of many billions of billions per second, had actually hit something...
...such explosions are far from invisible to eyes designed to see them. Most of their energy goes into X rays that travel unhindered through space and are stopped by the earth's atmosphere. A sensitive X-ray detector above the atmosphere can spot them 200 million miles away, and the satellite sentries launched last week carry twelve cylindrical X-ray detectors poking out in all directions. Inside the satellites' skins are instruments that will watch for the neutrons and gamma rays that also come from explosions in vacuum...