Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...issue, TIME published an open letter from Senior Correspondent John L. Steele to Dr. John S. Foster Jr., Director of Defense Research and Engineering. Steele pointed out what he considered substantive omissions in the Pentagon's comparison of U.S. nuclear strength with the Soviets. Following is Foster's response...
Miyoshi's story is one of thousands being collected by Minoru Yuzaki, a sociologist and research fellow at the University of Hiroshima's Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Biology. His mission: find out how many people perished. A quarter-century after the event (see ESSAY), no one yet knows how many Japanese died at Hiroshima. Estimates range from a low of 68,000 (by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission) to a high of 280,000 (by Chugoku Shimbun, Hiroshima's most influential daily newspaper...
...decision, but others did not. From the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago, the cover name for the atomic research center there, came the outspoken Franck Report, formulated by Physicists James Franck and Leo Szilard and Chemist Eugene Rabinowitch. Dropping the atom bomb on Japan, the report suggested, might unleash a nuclear arms race and a period of international distrust that would far outweigh any temporary advantage the U.S. might gain...
...People are less conscious of the dangers of the nuclear bomb now than they were ten years ago," he said. "They have adjusted and are learning to live with it-perhaps a dubious achievement. People still perceive the threat of something, of the possibility of nuclear annihilation, but on a less conscious level: a preconscious or unconscious level...
...while he has "great hope" for this development, he feels that scientists can provide only a "small proportion" of the impact needed to reverse American nuclear policy...