Word: geophysicist
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...signs are that Washington was wrong. In a recent bulletin issued by the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet woman scientist, Geophysicist V. A. Troitskaya, reports that the shots showed up almost instantly on Soviet instruments designed to measure minute electric currents flowing through the earth. Apparently the explosions caused disturbances in the earth's magnetic field, and these spread as waves, moving with almost the speed of light. At almost the same instant, Soviet monitoring stations in the Pacific, in Central Asia, on the Black Sea, and near Murmansk in extreme northwestern Russia recorded the waves clearly. After...
When Toronto's Geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson recently crossed the border, he found that it took five hours. After the Russians had switched the train wheels at Otpor to fit China's narrower-gauge tracks, he reported: "The train crept forward in the dark toward the actual border. It was brilliantly floodlit. Soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets were on guard...