The United States Advisory Committee on X-Ray and Radium Protection

As in previous lists, mention is here made only of units specifically authorized by law or established by the President by executive order under general authority vested in him.Advisory Committee of the Coast Guard Academy. Created by Public No. 38, 75th Congress, approved April 16, 1937, to examine the course of instruction and to advise the Secretary of the Treasury in regard thereto. Committee will consist of five “persons of distinction in the field of education,” who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury and who shall serve without pay, but who shall be reimbursed for actual expenses of travel.

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Moral and Political Consequences

Super Bomb ◽

10.7591/cornell/9781501745164.003.0005 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 71-86

Author(s):

Ken Young ◽

Warner R. Schilling

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Advisory Committee ◽

Atomic Bomb ◽

The United States ◽

Arms Race ◽

Moral Significance ◽

Political Consequences ◽

The World ◽

The Status ◽

The Impact

This chapter examines the controversy's real or assumed moral and political aspects. Moral repugnance inflected the scientific judgments of Oppenheimer's General Advisory Committee, triggering discussion of the relative moral significance of thermonuclear bombing, the use of the atomic bomb, and the mass urban bombing campaigns of 1942–1945. More immediate concerns centered on the impact a decision to develop thermonuclear weapons might have on the pattern of international relations. Given a paucity of intelligence, the effects on the Soviet Union's own weapons program, and thereby on the United States' vulnerability, could only be guessed at. The chapter thus considers if the development of the Super would restore the status quo ante-1949 or lead to a thermonuclear arms race and ultimate stalemate—or even the end of the world.

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Results from the 1977 coordinated observing campaign on HDE 226868 = Cygnus X-1

Symposium - International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s0074180900013644 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 83 ◽

pp. 297-298

Author(s):

C. T. Bolton

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Great Britain ◽

Soviet Union ◽

The United States ◽

Radio Flux ◽

International Astronomical Union ◽

X Ray ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

International Astronomical ◽

Flux Measurements

A coordinated campaign of radio, optical, and x-ray observations of the bright x-ray source Cygnus X-1 took place August 7–21, 1977 under sponsorship of Commission 42 of the International Astronomical Union. Radio flux measurements, optical spectra, photometry, and polarimetry were obtained during this period by ten groups from Canada, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States. The x-ray flux was monitored continuously by the SAS-3 satellite between August 11.0 and 17.0.

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