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Echoing Glenn Seaborg's anticipation of U.S.-Soviet collaboration in atomic research, NASA officials announced that the two nations were planning a joint space mission that could come as early as 1974. The most likely first step, Americans and Soviet planners decided, will be to dock an Apollo spacecraft with a Russian space station similar to the Salyut now in orbit. Following this, the space scientists envision a link-up between a Soyuz spacecraft and an American Skylab scheduled for launch...
Typical Sangfroid, the board conveyed its misgivings to Seaborg. Under the A.A.A.S.'s archaic rules, it could not do anything more. Nor would Seaborg. He had already turned down an offer of the A.A.A.S. presidential candidacy twice before because of his other obligations, and did not care to bow out this time. In fact, the only casualty of the dispute was a bystander: Dan Greenberg, 38, the news editor of the A.A.A.S. publication Science, and one of the most astute observers of the U.S. scientific establishment. Urged by the board members to bring their doubts about Seaborg...
...Seaborg's own reaction was quite different. Unruffled by the criticism, he said simply that as president he would disqualify himself from any A.A.A.S. activities in which his participation might compromise the organization...
...A.A.A.S.'s quaint electoral protocol again was on his side; he would first have to serve out a year as president-elect, he noted, before he actually assumed the presidency in 1972. By that time, the dispute over the radiation standards might be settled. Seaborg's sang-froid was characteristic. A tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and shambling figure, he has become something of a legend in Washington for his ability to duck controversy. During the intense debate over whether the U.S. should build an H-bomb, he managed to retain the friendship of both Robert Oppenheimer...
...Seaborg has used similar tactics to meet the emotional challenges of Gofman and Tamplin, who contend that the AEC's policies are nothing less than outright genocide. In response, Seaborg acknowledges the dangers of radiation, yet insists that the AEC's precautions have been more than adequate. Such a reply, however, may not be enough. Public anxiety over the real or imagined dangers of the atom was on the rise even before Gofman and Tamplin unleashed their polemic. One evidence of this is the proliferation of conservationist lawsuits attempting to block construction of nuclear plants...