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...must now take those steps which prudent men find essential," he declared. "We have no other choice in fulfillment of the responsibilities of the United States Government to its own citizens and to the security of other free nations." Directed by AEC Chairman Glenn T. Seaborg, underground tests in Nevada were scheduled to start within a few days...
...Democrats: Nevada's Howard W. Cannon, Wyoming's J. J. Hickey, Florida's George Smathers, Georgia's Herman Talmadge, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. Republicans: Colorado's Gordon Allott. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Maryland's John Marshall Butler, Hawaii's Hiram Fong, Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, Texas' John Tower...
...nuclear test? Nuclear physicists find it necessary to make many kinds of tests, most of them quietly in laboratories. But the phrase "nuclear test" has come to mean an experiment that involves a nuclear explosion. Since all such tests are dangerous, the U.S. fires its small ones on the Nevada desert, its big ones on remote Pacific islands. Most of the 169 U.S. tests were exploded on tall towers so that their expanding fireballs would not hit the ground. A few nuclear devices were dropped from airplanes or suspended from captive balloons...
...classed as "atmospheric" because their radioactive byproducts mix with the atmosphere and may be carried around the earth. Tests exploded under the sea are of much the same nature. Underground shots are considerably safer. The U.S. has fired about half a dozen small tests in tunnels dug into Nevada mountains. Their radioactivity was well confined, and so far there have been no reports of contaminated ground water, but large underground tests could conceivably poison the water supply of an entire state. For relatively small nuclear devices the U.S. is likely to continue underground tests, but the more powerful sod busters...
...does any man of God, though his intentions are good and his boons indisputable, have to seek sinners quite so flamboyantly? Nevada's Catholic Bishop Robert J. Dwyer of Reno gave his answer when he advised Catholics to boycott places of such "filthy and immoral" entertainment. Crowley took it in stride. Comparing last week's sendoff "bash" with the modest welcoming reception planned for his successor, he ruefully noted: "It is evidently much better to be leaving Las Vegas than to be coming here...