-' FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1953 AGE TWO TH1 OAltT TAB, Bomb Test Suspension The .Soviet I'liion's recent announcement of their suspension of nuclear testing has in. nil- Acllai Stevenson l(Mk like a prophet ol the decade, for it was not two years ago when he proposed that the United States do the s.;me thin;;, and lot an election partly lecaiic o this piopos.il. What .Stevenson realized at that time, and wh it Ameiican leaders have failed to realize until now. was that at that time the Soviet I'nion h.id possessed the propaganda advant age ocr the Tinted States for only a short time, and" that the United States by discon tinuing unclear testing at that time could icasscit her leadetship as a peace loving na tion and call the Soviet I'nion's peace hlulf at the same time. Now that the Soviet 1'niou has announced Misprision ol nudear testing, there still re mains in the I'nited States a complete lack ol leadership. ; The general icactiou Irom Washington was to treat the Soviet announcement as a propaganda move, which indeed it was. How ever, there seems to he such a void ol im agination among the leaders in Washington, as to come up with no conciete proposal to match the Russian announcement. The Piesidtnt has announced that the I'.S. will (oiitinuc to test wcawns in the face of the vciy leal piotests hv neutral states .sin h as India. Again the IMcsidcnt has let the Soviet I'n ion he punned in the light of a peaceloving nation, and leads the woild to believe that the Tinted States is the wai monger nation whose sole aim is to attain atomic supremacy ov er the Sov iet I'nion. 'I his is not the picture tlu.t the Tinted Stales should yive to its allies or to its po tential allies. It makes veiv little diffeieiue in the eves of the woild that the Soviet I'nion has just (ompletcd a large series of tests or that the I'nited Stales is experimenting with a "hail" hvdiogeu homh. What the people ol the world ; e looking for is concrete ac tion tow. ml the ending of the nuclear men k e. It makes veiv little dilference also to have statements in the paper about the necessity tor testing lor scieutilie progress, when the onlv thing the Tnited Slates seems to be testing is materials loi k m lave. I he Tnited States can at least break even with the Russians on the latest propaganda move, bv announcing suspension ol Ameii can nuclear testing. Py this the Tnited States will be pacilving the potential allies like Iu- di.irtitfid at the s. ine time calling Russia's blull. II Russia does not test anv more, the Tnited States will have gained one of the goals that ir wanted to gain at (ieneva. H Russi. does test in the luture. Russia is put in the light ol a war monger, and the T.S. w ill be fiee to te st. 'I he Tnited States still cannot lose bv the suspension ol the tests, and the people ol the woild will test quite a bit easier without the tin e.it ol additional Strontium 0 in the .lii. Sfje 5Batlp Ear tet Tin official student publication of the Publica tion Hoard of the L'ni . .-. r .crsity of North Caro- r i lina. where it is pub- . . lihed daily except , . . Monday and examina tion and vacation pe riods ar. 1 summer terms. Entered as sec ond class matter in the p.)t office in Chapel Hill. N. (.. under the Act of March B. 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, S2.5) a semester; de livered. .So' a year, $3.50 a semester A9e Problems In The Atomic Nuclear Tests: Another Viewpoint Policy Needs Revision (David Lawrence is publish er of U. S. News and World Report. It is from this week's issue Dial this article is taken.) The Soviet Union's proposal tem porariy to suspend, of its own accord, the testing of H-bombs has been hailed by some newspa pers here and abroad, and by some partisan politicians in Con press, as a great "propaganda victory" for the Communists. To the gullible and the craven, to the weak-kneed and the "prac tical" who used to advocate doing business with Hitler and who now want to do business with Khrush chevthe Moscow proposal is a "stroke of genius." But to the President of the Uni ted States, who has faith in the truth, the Communist stratagem is a "gimmick" and a diversionary tactic. To all straight-thinking peo ple throughout the world, the Sov iet proposal is a transparently phony scheme. For the Communists have just completed their own scries of tests, and they know that the United States is about to begin a new series of tests. Prime Minis ter Macmillan told the House of Commons last week that Great Britain now has "specific evi dence" that not all nuclear tests can be detected by other govern ments. The Soviet Union, indeed, rejected the resolution overwhelm, ingly adopted last November by United Nations General Assemby calling for a supervised ban on nu clear tests and the ending of the production of nuclear weapons, with controls. Khrushchev now says he favors "international con trol" of tests but avoids endorse ment of the U. N. plan. What the really wants is his own kind of supervision. Why. incidentally, was the offer made by the Soviet Union to ban only the tests of H-bombs? Why didn't Moscow announce a deci sion to accept proposals already made by Western governments to abandon completely the manufac ture and use of nuclear weapons under an inspection system that would insure compliance? If test ing is a crime against humanity, then the use of nuclear bombs hereafter would be an even worse tragedy for . mankind. Throughout the 8.000-word speech of Soviet Foreign Minister Gromy ko. there is only one sentence about a possible abolition of the use of atomic bombs, and this is couched in the vaguest terms as Chervi l (ill s I 4 ib LnwrrMy ?' IsWilt Carolina hktt lirtt ... Editor Managing Editor . Business Manager . New x Editor Ast. News Editor Feature Editor Sports Editor Asst. Sports Editor Advertising Manager Subscription Manager Circulation Manager Arts Editor Coed Editor Librarian Editorial Assistants CURTIS B. CANS CHARLIE SLOAN J 0 1 1 N W HIT A K Pat . PAUL RULE BILL KINCAI1) DAVIS YOUNG DAVE WIBLE BUST V HAMMOND FKEI) KATZIN AVERY THOMAS ... SYD SHUFORD ANTHONY WOLFF . 7 JOAN BROCK GLENDA FOWLER BAilltY WLNSTON WIUT W HITFIELD ED ROWIND BUSLNESS STAFF John Mintcr, Lewis Rush, Wal ker Blanton. NEWS STAKE l'ringle Pipkin. Sarah Adams. Dave Jones, Parker Maddrey. Ed Rowland. Mary Moore Mason. Wcktbrook Fuwler, Stn Black. Virginia Sandidge, Ben Taylor, Eddie Goodman. Wjndham Hewitt, Ken Friedman. v t it-- Ths Atomic Bomb . . . v:ith it questions an aim or hope. Vet every wordv uttered against nuclear tests eoulcf be applied even more effectively against the production and use 'Of any nuclear weapons. The argument of the native jit 'our midst is that the suspension, of the tests will be a "good begin ning." After this it is wishfully argued may come 'other agree ments. It is familiar 'refrain. ' It has been heard every year since 1954. Yet after we engage in talks and conferences, we find out what we knew before that the Com ., munists break their pledges and will not accept anything but the unconditional surrender of the Western world. Once we agree to stop testing, and the agreement is subsequently broken by the Sov iets, then as the cliches goes" we will at least know 'where we stand. "To put it more realistical ly, Khrushchev will be in a posi tion to terrorize the Western na tions and tell them, where they will by "buried." ' Every one of the Soviet propos als, including the recent demand that American bases be abandon ed and onr troops by withdrawn from Western Europe, has a single military objective to win domina tion for the communists without firing a shot. There are group here and abroad who arc tired of the fight for ideals. They want to appease the Communists by accepting the present enslavement of the captiv e countries as irretrievable. Why do not some of these same unwitting apologists for the cause of the Communists demand the suspen sion of a few other things besides tlv testing of H-bombs? Have they no interest in the fate of the Hun garian people and the peoples of the captive countries who are being tortured every day, not by Soviet tests" but by Soviet acts of brutality? Under certain conditions, we would agree to suspend the use of nuclear weapons atthougether, and we have indicated this posi tion frequently in the past. But the Soviet Union first must establish the sound conditions that would warrant the taking of such steps by the free nations of the world today. ' (The following is an editor ial which appeared in this week's issue of "The Nation.") The president and Mr.' Dulles must realize that the1 United States is ; in grave diplomatic trouble and that trying to get but of it' with quips and evasions just isn't going to work"! By their unilateral sus pension of nuclear testing the Russians have. got, us on the dip lomatic hook. It 'makes little dif ference that the Russian move is tainted with some .blatant horn swoggling. , The fact remains that they correctly 'gauged the state of' ! public opinion in part of the world vital" to us,1 and acted with bold ness orginality, and superb timing. By all the rules, they have earned their diplomatic triumph. The outlines of ' w-hat they ac complished are only beginning to become clear, and the spectacle is neither pleasant nor . reassuing. Mr. Dulles feared to lose his shirt at" a summit conference: He has already lost it without the con ference. The Russians had indicated a willingness to cease nuclear test ing With some sort of inspection system backing up the agreement. This was one of the practical ques tions on which we could- have negotiated f freeing the Soviet satellite, re-unifying Germany on our terms, etc., are issues on which no serious diplomat would waste his time); and, had en agreement been reached, we could have shared the credit with Mos cow and reaped some advantages from the inspection arrangement. Now the Russians take all . the credit, leaving us to incur obloquoy for our tests in the pacific prov ing grounds, while their own re cent tests escape practically scot free. If all this is a "gimmick", one' can only wish to God that our statesmen could concoct such gimmicks once in a while. Aside from the diplomatic de feat, we are in an uncomfortable position militarily. The big fission-fusion-fission bombs are obsolete. In a sense, they work too well: they kill ho indiscriminately and on such a grand scale that no na tion can afford' to use them. The rational line of development inso far as rationality can play1 a part in these affairs is "miniaturiza rion' 'of missile Warheads, as well as the 'familiar miniaturization of components in the guidance sys tem. We must ask ourseives: Why are the Russians so ready to sus pend tests? Ohe reason is that they would like to reduce their arma ment expenditures, which are far more onerous to them than ours to us. To this extent they are act ing in good faith, and indeed it is as' stupid to postulate that they are always wholly' Machiavellian as 'to believe that their motives are as pure and humanitarian as they say. But there must be other reasons,' and one, which must be asumed as a matter of elementary prudence, Is that they are' satisfied with their present missile tech nology. In other' words, they 'are ahead; of us, and probably the best we can hope for is to catch up with them hi our forthcoming ser ies. These races tend to be neck-and-neck, 'and by all indications we are a neck behind. Mr. Eisenhower must therefore try a new line. It would be best, of course, if the new line did not include Mr. Dulles, but ' since it will, the President should acknow ledge to his own private self that Mr. Dulles doesn't know where he is' going. For his own sake and that of .'the country, 'the President must take the reins in his own hands. And as he prepares to do so, he should bear in mind that the reason the Rusians have been able to get away with a certain amount of transparent propagan da is simply that the world wel comes any 'move at all towards a cessation of the nuclear-armaments race. For The Record FSrsfAtomk- Bomb .. Firsf Hyclrogirr Bomb Firsf Satellite ". L L Number'6f Tests United States July 14, 1945 ; Nov. 1, 1952 1 ... Jan. 1958 ; n - 1 : Russia Sept. 12. 1949 Aug: 12, 1953 Oct, 12, 1957 39 Science Paves Way For Nuclear Detection David Bird roii Bird Seir SPORTS STAFF Elliott Cooper. I nOTOCiRAJ'ilEKS Norman Kantor, Buddy Spooa, Night L'ditor rEBLEY BARROW (This article is taken this weeks 'Nation." Mr. is on the staff of The York Times.) There can he no doubt that if a nation wants to carry out (nu clear) tests in secrecy, obser vation will become diTficult and uncertain Dr. Edward Teller. University of California physi cist who fs commonly referred to as "the father of the H-bomb." On the technical matter of whether you could develop a sys tem to enforce the test ban. I think you can do this Dr. Wil lard F. Libby, scientific mem ber of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. The Soviet Union's unilateral re nunciation, pro tern, of further nuclear tests simply points up the need to settle once and for all the controversy now pervading the question of whether nuclear dis armament a'i cements can be made to stick through workable inspection methods. It is a con troversy that is carried on mainly in the dark because the United States Atomic Energy Commis sion, presumably to keep the Rus sians in equal darkness, has held nuclear explosion detection me thods under a cloak of secrecy ever since it made it first cryptic announcement almost nine years ago that the Russians had set olf their first atom bomb.' Since then the AEC had regular, ly announced Russian nuclear tests, but its sparse reports have never mentioned how these were detected or how accurate the de tection methods are. Actually, the most the Government has reveal ed came in a statement from PresiJent Eisenhower at a recent news conference. lie said that "with proper inspectional facili ties, seismic and electronic, and so on, (nuclear tests ought to be detected." If this dearth of information? leaves the average citizen with little basis to make an intelligent judgment in the face of emotional appeals for and against nuclear inspection systems, it has also left at. least some atomic scientists in a similar position. Dr. Harrison iJrown, a professor of geochemis try at the California Institute of Technology who worked on the de velopment of the first atomic bomb at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, said in testimony before the Senate Dis armament Subcommittee that it was easier to get information on radioactivity and its detection from Japan than from the Atomic En ergy Commission. He added that the Japanese regularly and volun tarily sent him this information, while the AEC required a "spe cial plea," although he has the highest type of security clearance. Dr. Brown suggests that this with-holding of information gives those in control excessive power in policy formation, since they can make statements which cannot be checked or refuted by critics. As Dr. Brown's testimony indi cates, there has been considerable activity outside the AEC's securi ty net on methods of detecting nu clear tests. Much work has gone on in Japan; some has been done by American scientists indepen dently of the AEC. A great deal has been published without any type of security label. Unfortun ately, most of the nuclear news that reaches the American public is channeled through government. And the AEC, adhering to its po licy of secrecy, refuses to recog nize this information from outside domain. That this domain is ef fectively extended to other gov ernment agencies is illustrated by the Weather Bureau official who, when asked recently about the de tection of nuclear blasts through minute barometric variations, re fused to comment on the grounds of security. Barometric variation as a means of detecting nuclear eplosions--which hasn't rated public comment in this country lias been under experimentation and perfection for several years in Japan. With it the Japanese have been able to pin point quickly the location of the U. S. and Russian nuclear tests. It is one of the four main tcchni- gues, developed outside the AEC. of detecting these tests.' according to Dr. Jay Orenr, a Columbia Uni versity physicist who has been ex ploring the field in nonclassified research. The other methods are through seismic waves, "visible light and radioactivity. Barometric variations can mea sure the energy that is transmitted to the air from an explosion. This energy travels the way sound does and with the same speed. Then the energy reaches a "sensitive microbarometer (similar to those used to check weather conditions by changes in air pressure) it causes a sharp movement in the markings on the recording drum. By noting the time the shock wave is recorded on microbarometers at varying distances and different points in relation to the blast, the exact location can be determined. Judging by the accuracy with which the Japanese have detected Russian and U. S. tests more than 2,000 miles away, this method ap pears to be the most sensitive and quickest for detecting a nuclear explosion. Seismic waves can detect nu clear tests through another set of disturbances in the earth.; Both earthquakes and explosions are picked up by seismographs, but each phenomenon has its own signature. Earthquakes, a long and complex pattern of shifting of the earth, manifest a long and complex pattern on the seismo graph chart. 'Explosious, on the' other hand, are sharp and com pact movements and show up this way on a seismograph. Another difference is that an explosion is to tally outward in its movement from its point of origin, and thus shows up with a similar outward initial movement on all seismo graphs, no matter where locafed with relation to the. blast. Earth quakes show up as different pat terns on seismographs, depending on whether the instruments are situated on the "push" or to !he "pull" direction in relation to the guake. Seismographs' are generally the only means of detecting under ground blasts! Their effectiveness - -- -,...- . -,.. is attested by the fact that . the . ACE's underground test last Sept ember in Nevada was detected in College, Alaska, more than 2.000 miles away. All nuclear explosions above the ground '' give - off tremendous amounts of light and this provides for the third method of detection visible light. The hot gases gen- ' crated by a nuclear explosion pro duce the characteristic large ball of fire. While not admitting that this is a means of detection that it utilizes, the AEC has stated that "the fireball from a -megaton nuclear bomb would appear to an observer sixty miles away to be more than thirty time as brilliant as the sun at noon." In several of the nuclear tests made at the Nevada test site, in all of which energy yields were less than 100 kilotons, the glare in the sky. in the early hours of the dawn, has been visible 400 or more miles away. The AEC goes on to say that "as a general rule, the lumi nosity does not vary greatly with the energy or power of the bomb." The light from an atomic blast can be seen many miles away because of reflection from the upper atmos phere in much the same vvay that we see the sun in the form of twilight long after it has disap peared below the horizon. An in spection station checking on nu , clear tests could be equipped with sensitive electric eyes to detect the brightness from a bomb blast. Generally, the limit of effective detection by this method would . about 500 miles. The fourth detective technique measures the "dirt" that comes from a nuclear explosion radio activity. ' Every nuclear bomb even the "9S per cent clean" ones that have been Jested recently - releases radioactive particles' into the air. Some of these' fall to earth quick ly, but others are carried into the upper air currents. These particles eventually come down to earth and a nuclear explosion is fndicated when the radioactivity count rises. as shown on a 'geiger counter. The location of the bomb blast "can be determined by chart- New Report On Fallout (Dr. Libby is a member pf &ie Atomic En. ergy Commission. His article appeared in this week's issue ofU. S. News and World Report.) The biological hazard .from tjie radioactive fall out from weapons testing is not well known, and, like many biological problems, the determination of the hazard in any exact way seems to be almost im possibly difficult. Fortunately, however, it is possible to compare the radiation from radioactive fall-out with the in tensities of ' natural radation to which we are al ways exposed. ' '' For example, it is clear that the present level of radio-strontium in bones of young children, which are of course, closest to being in equilibrium with the' fall-out since adults have had their bones some time even before there was any radioactive fall-out is ' about 2 milliroentgens: per year, as compared to an average natural dosage of 150 to 200 millero entgens'per year or about 1 to 2 per cent of the dosage from natural sources to the bones, depend ing upon location. ' Natural radioactivity present in the ground, building materials and even in our own bodies gives us an average total dose at sea level of about 150 milliroentgens per year, and medical x-rays add something like another 150 milliroentgens. The radiocesium taken into the body and the penetrating radiations from non-assimilable radios active fall-out contribute perhaps another 3 or 4 per Cent to the whole body dosage. Thus, the total dosage to freshly formed human bone is at most 5 per cent of the natural dosage. Furthermore, we do know that the variations in natural background dosages from place to place are enormous in magnitude as compared to the fall out dosage. For example, it has been found that exposure from external radiation rise from a value of about 110 milliroentgens per year at sea level to some thing like 230 milliroentgens per. year to 5,000 to 6, 000 feet altitude in the United States .These num bers are considerable larger than-those expected on the basis of earlier calculations and measurements, the increase apparently being due to the cosmic rays and their increase with altitudes. In addition, the effects of radioactivity in the soil and ' in building materials made of stone or soil are considerable, amounting in some instances to 50 to 100 "per cent of the average natural back ground dose at sea level; and the magnitude ot the medical exposures to x-rays approximates, on the average, those due to all natural sources. We see. therefore, that whatever the extent of our ignorance of the biological effects of radiation, we do know that these effects are not unexper ienced by the human species, even from the ge netic point of view, since it is clesx now that per sons living at high altitudes on granitic rocks al ways have received extra radiation many times great er than is contained in the radioactive fall-out from the testing of nuclear weapons, and that even those living on certain sedimentary rocks at sea level always have received ab&ut 10 to 20 times the present fall-out dose. Of course, this dos not. mean tbat any ot th? effects from radioactive fill-out .are in any way neg ligible, and it does not mean that certain numbers of people will not be injured by radioactive fall out radiations, even though these numbers be very ' small relative to the total population of the world. View 8l Preview ing the speed and direction of the air currents from which the sam ples were taken. The length of time that has elapsed since ' the blast released the radioactive particles can be measures by the age of the particles, which decay at a determinable rate. The main drawback in this method is that it may take weeks for the parti cles to drift into a detection sta tion. Thus where speed in identi fication is necessary, other techni ques will be used and radioactivity samples will serve only a back stop check. Using these four methods, Dr. Orear, the Columbia physicist, feels that inspection stations with in three hundred miles of eacn other would be' able to detect even low-yield tests in the low kiloton range. Transferring this to a map. for example, it would re quire only some twenty-five out posts in the Soviet Union to detect a test anywhere within that coun try's 8.7 million square miles of area. It should be pointed out, in this connection, that the USSR has agreed in principle to the establish ment of inspection posts. All four of the detection systems can check on nuclear explosions above the earth the most dan gerous type because they -release deadly radioactive fallout into the air. Deep underground tests, which do not release contamination and are more useful for the non-military applications of atomic power, can still be detected by at least one method seismic "waves. While nuclear tests above and under the ground have been the most frequent types, there remains one other general method; under water testing. This has been claim ed ' to be somewhat difficult to detect in spite' of the fact that un derwater tests at Bikini were re corded on seismographs. But even with these, there are at least two methods of detection: by measur ing samples of water for increases in radioactivity" and by using hy drophones to check disturbances ; in, the water in precisely the man ner in which microbarometers are usecl to detect air vibrations. It has . no doubt been noted elsewhere, but it merits being noted again here, that the normal fur therance of "co-recreational" relationships is sadly hindered at Carolina. There is no place on this campus, for two people to be. alone together (ex cepting parked cars and Kenai Woods on warm evenings). The philosophy, conscious or unconscious, be hind this state of affairs seems to be that affection between Carolina ladies and gentlemen (Note: those terms are used advisedly) is a Bad Thing, and should be carefully controlled. . The end result is that local young lovers are forced either to abstain from even the most simple and innocent love-making, ... or engage in some de gree of public display which is uncomfortable for everyone concerned. This is but an outline of a problem for which there is no easy solution; nevertheless, it is a mat ter of considerable importance, applying in lesser degree to many areas of social activity on the camp us.. The present situation is serious enough to cause concern, but it will get much worse before it gets better. Whatever the present magnitude of these and many other problems with which the University is faced, the imminent sizable increase in student population will serve to compound the difficulties. The causes and the ramifications of the existing situation are many. The American moral -climate surrounding love, both platcnic and physical, is a part of what is commonly referred to as our "Puri tan heritage"; thus it is a current in the main stream of the development in- the Western world of that physical-intellectuai-emotional complex which we call 'love.' Obviously, the American attitude toward love and related activities is often self-defeating, en couraging and making more pleasurable nominally illicit activities wheh it strives to control; and. at the same time, seriously undermining the mature marital relationship which it is supposed to strength en and sanctify. Putting aside, for the moment at least, all far reaching considerations, we are faced with a Fri day evening, and hundreds of couples are faced with the choice of one of several available ways to spend the evening. It is safe to assume that the relationships exist ing between these couples constitute a continuum from absolute strangers to lovers. Only for the absolute strangers does Chapel Hill provide any satisfactory surroundings; for the success nf a b1ind-dati. or of arv first dat. is often fostered by the sectxity of either a movie or some form of public or group activity. To be sure, any couple, no matter how intimate their relationship,' may o:;ten enjoy such activities; but It is essential to the maturation and determi nation of such relationships that there be "'an oc casion and sanction for privacy when "it is desired.

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