Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Late in 1958, U.S. negotiators met with the Russians and British in Geneva, proposed a system for monitoring nuclear bomb tests based on a network of 180 control stations. The U.S. has been regretting the offer ever since. Only two months later, U.S. scientists exploded a small nuclear device beneath a mesa in Nevada, which proved that such explosions were far harder to detect than the U.S. had supposed. Difficulty is that the Russians have embraced the 180-station system as if they had thought of it themselves. For months they refused even to listen...
...Very disappointing," said the U.S. State Department. Chief problem is in providing a system sensitive enough to distinguish nuclear shocks from normal small earthquakes, of which thousands occur every year. Under the Russian-approved system, U.S. negotiators pointed out, the Nevada shot-a ig-kiloton explosion-would have been read as an earthquake, and therefore ruled out for inspection. New ammunition was a study made by the Rand Corp., at the suggestion of Dr. Edward Teller, director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. Rand mathematicians theorized that any underground explosion can be "decoupled" by placing...
...Russians complained that the West was making "tendentious" use of "one-sidedly developed material for the purpose of undermining confidence" in the 180-station control system. The U.S.-British position was that no control system at all might be better than one that lulled the West into an illusion of security, behind which its enemies might test on, the explosions muffled in huge caverns in the depths of Siberia, secret and undetectable...
...bottle-nosed dolphins (Tursiops trnncatus), more popularly known as porpoises. So far, he has not found a common language, but already he is convinced that dolphins are far and away the most intelligent beasts on earth. Last week Dr. Lilly, 44, was hard at work supervising an elaborate new system of jetties and pools that he is constructing, partly with money supplied by the Navy, on a bay six miles from Charlotte Amalie, in the Virgin Islands...
...earth for about one billion years. Gold points out. It began as very simple forms of microscopic size, has developed slowly until only now is it reaching a level of physical development and technological competence that will allow descendants of those microbes to travel outside their own solar system. Certainly within the next few hundred years, he holds, man will be visiting planets of other solar systems. "Most of these planets will have unsuitable conditions for us to live there freely, but if they have no life on them, it is still possible that they can be contaminated with some...