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Worrisome as it was, the problem with the attitude control system was nothing as compared with another threat. Just as Glenn was beginning his second orbit, an instrument panel in the Project Mercury Control Center at Canaveral picked up a warning that the Fiberglas heat shield on Friendship 7 had come ajar. If the shield were to separate before or during the capsule's re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, John Glenn would perish in a flash of flame...
Apparently trying to avoid hiding behind the shield of classified information, the AEC Commissioners explained the possible reasons for a test resumption, emphasizing that scientists are not certain what will happen in a nuclear explosion high in the stratosphere...
Goheen led those who signed the subsequent letter in favor of the program. The group endorsed the building of shelters as a "shield which may mean the difference between an America that has enough skilled courageous people to keep it going and an America that has lost so large a portion of its people that the survivors are forced to surrender...
...information on each, but insisted: "These individuals are acting under policies for which my senior associates and I must assume responsibility." While the Senators met privately with him to try to break the impasse, McNamara indicated that he would claim the legal right of executive privilege, if necessary, to shield his censors...
...Savannah's reactor, a time-tested model similar to those used in U.S. nu clear submarines, will drive the ship at a speed of 21 knots. One problem for the Savannah designers was to shield the $10 million reactor so that a collision with another ship would not release death dealing radiation. To accomplish this, the ship's nuclear engineers encased the reactor in reinforced bulkheads, extra-heavy plating, a 2-ft.-thick "collision mat" made of layers of steel and redwood, and some 2,000 tons of lead and concrete...