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Scientific Nonchalance. E.G. & G.'s forte is mastery of "pulse techniques," by which it records the sight and shocks of a nuclear explosion in time-paring millimicro-seconds. In the recent Christmas and Johnston Island tests, 200 E.G. & G. technicians armed with $3,500,000 worth of equipment took 50,000 photographs of each of 26 explosions, shot some film at speeds of a billionth of a second. They, measured such phenomena as fireball temperatures, alpha, beta and gamma rays, eye-burn potential, and the blasts' effect on radio communication. Currently under a $25 million AEC contract...
...highest nuclear test some 260 miles above the earth. It was the first invasion of the fringes of outer space by a thermonuclear device, and what it proved militarily for the security of the U.S. was a carefully kept secret. But the one-megaton bomb that arched over tiny Johnston Island on a three-stage Delta rocket caused the most dazzling-and awesome-display of man's power ever seen...
...great show went on far from Hawaii. It splashed New Zealand with incandescent color, spanned the Pacific with artificial auroras, and reddened the sky almost as far away as Antarctica. Brilliant, many-colored lights changed and danced over Samoa, flashed across remote Campbell Island 5,600 miles from Johnston Island. On the northern side of the magnetic equator, where the same atmospheric force lines dive into the atmosphere, parts of Alaska saw the northern version of New Zealand's aurora. The explosion itself was silent to human ears, but its power caused the earth's atmosphere and magnetic...
...party to grow because it might outgrow them." Under Chapman, South Carolina Republicans are running their first major candidate for the Senate since Reconstruction: William D. Workman Jr., 47, a widely known, highly respected syndicated columnist and pro-segregationist author (Case for the South), who is seeking Democrat Olin Johnston's seat...
...failed last week in its second attempt to explode a nuclear test at high altitude over Johnston Island in the Pacific. Official reason for the flop: "a malfunction in the system." Since nuclear devices almost always explode as planned, the malfunction was probably in the Thor rocket on which the bomb was riding. Until other scapegoats are available, critics can blame 1) the haste with which rocket-launching equipment was thrown together on remote Johnston Island; 2) failure to use reliable solid-fuel rockets (Polaris or Minuteman) instead of the obsolescent Thor, which burns notoriously troublesome liquid oxygen...