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...approach to arms talks that it would probably have preferred. Several slight substantive modifications can probably be attributed to Reagan's desire to counter the negative imagery which has portrayed him as less interested in negotiations than in preparing for an "inevitable" Armageddon. Examples include his promulgation of the "zero option" in Europe over some internal Administration opposition, and the fact that he did not on Sunday demand that the first "START" (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks) agreement include an equalization of throw weight (the explosive power of nuclear payloads) levels, a proposal so obviously unacceptable that it would have signalled...
...detect a fugitive monopole, Cabrera used a kind of magnetic mousetrap, which was connected to a SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device). He turned a coil of niobium, a platinum-gray metallic element, into a superconductor of electricity by cooling it to within nine degrees of absolute zero (minus 460° F). Current thus moved through it without resistance, allowing the slightest twitch in the current's flow to be recorded. At 1:53 p.m. on Feb. 14, the magnetic flux in Cabrera's device jumped eight steps, exactly what was expected if a Dirac monopole passed through. Cabrera...
...flung variety of Ground Zero participants may have been more significant than their absolute numbers. From Greenville, S.C., to Clackamas County, Ore., local officials issued declarations of support. In 200 of the 650 towns and cities that held Ground Zero observances, markers were installed, each signifying the center of a 12-sq.-rrfi. circle of total destruction that a one-megaton warhead would wreak. Around the Ground Zero spot in Billings, Mont., a mime group per, formed an antiwar piece; in neighboring North Dakota, 600 people in Grand Forks applauded a speaker's suggestion that the Government dismantle...
Molander's organization does not endorse any specific arms control proposal, but the Reagan Administration is fearful that the spreading obsession with nuclear holocaust could pressure the U.S. to undertake an arms freeze prematurely. Both on the eve of Ground Zero's kickoff and during the week, the President felt obliged to express his sympathy with the fundamental fears of the participants. Yet he repeated his objection to an immediate freeze on nuclear weaponry; such an agreement, he argued, would simply lock in a supposed Soviet missile advantage...
Nevertheless, sponsors of a U.S. -Soviet nuclear freeze initiative in California chose Ground Zero Week to file 750,000 petition signatures, more than twice the number necessary to put the proposal on November's ballot. The measure would require the Governor to call on the President and Congress to propose to the Soviets a mutual halt to all nuclear arms development. According to a new survey, if the election were held now, California voters would approve the freeze by a 2-to-l victory...