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...other two amendments made somewhat more headway. No. 1 passed eleven legislatures: Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming. Amendment No. 2 passed twelve: Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming...
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From the councils of the Administration last week emerged a curt and puzzling bulletin announcing that the three detonations scheduled to take place at the Nevada nuclear test, site during May had been canceled. That was all. There was no public gesture of explanation...
Shortly before, President Kennedy had received from Premier Khrushchev a message replying to a joint U.S.-British appeal to get the stalled nuclear test ban negotiations moving again. To head off the obvious inference that Khrushchev's message prompted the U.S. decision to cancel the Nevada tests, Administration spokesmen hastened to assure newsmen that the events were unconnected. "Just a coincidence," said one high official. Khrushchev's letter, according to New Frontiersmen, "left the test ban issue right where it was-on dead center...
Although the Nevada detonations would have been the first fallout-producing nuclear tests of 1963 on either side of the Iron Curtain, they hardly warranted the Russian outbursts. Of the three explosions, only two would have been nuclear (the other test was to have employed a conventional chemical explosive), and they would have been fire-crackerish as nuclear tests go. The fallout would have been confined to the vicinity of the test site...