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...bomb can be clean in one way and dirty in another. In Science, William H. Shipman and other scientists from the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, San Francisco, tell how they found large quantities of radioactive manganese 54 in the fallout from last year's thermonuclear tests at Eniwetok. Since Mn-54 is not a fission product, they concluded that it was formed when free neutrons from the explosion combined with iron or ordinary manganese, presumably in the bomb's structure. Figuring back, they estimated that "megacurie quantities" were produced...
...White House, the Pentagon and the remote missile-and rocket-testing areas from Florida to Eniwetok there was a new sense of urgency last week. Across the U.S. most of the post-Sputnik criticism and political backbiting gave way to the closest thing to an identity with national purpose that the U.S. has known since Korea...
...balloon-launched Air Force rocket, fired over Eniwetok as part of a research program called Project Far Side, burst into outer space, beyond the 580 miles of the Soviet satellite, beyond the 625-mile record set by the Army Jupiter, with preliminary instrument studies indicating the rocket may have soared 4,000 miles (distance from earth to moon: 238,857 miles...
...Aircraft Corp., was tapped as White House aviation adviser to replace Major General (U.S.A.F., ret.) Edward Peck Curtis, 60, who returns to Eastman Kodak Co. as vice president. "Pete" Quesada, who was wartime commander of the Ninth Fighter Command in Europe and boss of the thermonuclear bomb tests at Eniwetok in 1951, will quarterback the Eisenhower Administration's plans to work out a traffic control system for the commercial jet age. Last week the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee took the first big step toward such a plan, voted to create an air modernization board (TIME...
Before hopping off on his inspection of nuclear-weapons testing grounds at Eniwetok and Bikini, snow-capped Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson watched with vital interest as two B-52 crewmen snapped him into his parachute harness...