Word: seaborg
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tests underground. "We 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...
...Thursday ranking officials arrived at the White House-Rusk. Dulles, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, AEC Chairman Glenn Seaborg, Cold War Adviser Maxwell Taylor, U.S. Information Agency Chief Edward R. Murrow. At 12:45 p.m., Kennedy issued a second statement calling the Soviet announcement "atomic blackmail." Declared the President: "What the Soviet Union is obviously testing is not only nuclear devices but the will and determination of the free world to resist such tactics and to defend freedom.'' The President stated he was confident that the present U.S. nuclear stockpile was capable of defending the free world, once again...
Devastating Effect. A few proponents of the N-bomb have hinted that the Atomic Energy Commission's scientists, under the direction of Chairman Glenn Seaborg, are not making enough effort to develop it-because they think it cannot or should not be done. Responsible officials in many branches of the Government are quick to respond with categorical denials. Admiral John T. Hayward, head of Navy research and development, says that the AEC's labs are doing all they can, and doing it well. Senators on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy agree. All authorities insist that while other...
...Glenn T. Seaborg. Nobel Prizewinning chemist; chairman AEC Sc.D...
...Seaborg assured his audience that a great deal of ground testing will be done before a fiercely radioactive nuclear rocket is fired aloft. "We must plan." he said, "to handle the maximum credible accidents that might arise in the launching of a nuclear rocket, its malfunction or abort, its re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, and the ultimate disposition of the nuclear engines and power units in space. I am cautiously optimistic that solutions are at hand...