Fifth Atomic Device Set Off In Test At Frenchmans Flat
The fifth nuclear device in the series exploded at 8:30 a.m. Las Vegas time, delivering a blast roughly 30 000 tons of TNT or more. AEC described a ground shielding effect with concrete dome shelters and pig tests for protective clothing. The 10 mile wide crater area was obliterated though the fireball did not touch the ground. A mushroom cloud rose after the detonation.
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Ground Zero
Angels’ Peak
AEC
Las Vegas
C.D.T
Best ways to water gardens and lawns in hot weather
July Better Homes and Answers provides practical guidance on watering flowers shrubs vegetables and lawns. It covers how much water is needed in heat and the best methods to use so every drop is efficient and hose attachments that ease the job. Available now wherever magazines are sold.
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Better Homes
Clean hydrogen bomb progress reported to Eisenhower
Three University of California physicists led by Ernest Lawrence report to President Eisenhower that hydrogen bombs may soon reach about 95 percent reduction in radioactive fallout. AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss and the scientists say tests have produced negligible radioactivity, while avoiding policy questions on disarmament and testing moratorium.
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University of California
Lewis L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Strauss
Eisenhower
Ernest C. Lawrence
Mark M. Mills
Edward Teller
University of California Radiation Laboratory
Teller
AEC
House
Lawrence
Supreme Court Upheld Federal Obscenity Law and State Statutes
The Supreme Court sustained the federal ban on sending obscene material by mail with a 7-2 ruling in the California case and a 6-3 split in the federal matter. It also upheld a 1870 California statute criminalizing writing or distributing indecent literature and a New York court-authorization provision to bar obscene printed matter.
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Supreme Court
William J. Brennan Jr
California
New York
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