Bilateral Space Cooperation with the Former Soviet Union: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Space of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, March 25, 1992, Volume 4

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Page 105 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the- nations...
Page 18 - ... applications of nuclear energy and because he felt that the United States would need advanced nuclear weapons to successfully oppose future dangers. After World War II, Dr. Teller made significant contributions to developments of atomic weapons and to the design of the world's first hydrogen bomb. He was a member of the General Advisory Committee of the US Atomic Energy Commission from 1956 to 1958, helped establish the Nation's second weapons laboratory at Livermore, California, and served as...
Page 1 - The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to today's hearing on the status of the Yucca Mountain Project, and Proposed Legislation to Alter the Nuclear Waste Trust Fund.
Page 50 - Ground effect machines (GEMS), including surface effect machines and other air cushion vehicles, except such machines as are In normal commercial use, and all components, parts, accessories, attachments, and associated equipment specifically designed or modified for use with such machines.
Page 2 - Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University...
Page 18 - From 1931 to 1935, he worked at the University of Goettingen with James Frank. With the rise of the Nazis, he left Germany, worked In London and In Copenhagen at the Niels Bohr Institute. In 1935, Dr. Teller was appointed Professor of Physics at the George Washington University In Washington, DC He became a citizen of the United States In 1941 . Prior to 1939, and the announcement to the scientific community of the discovery of fission, Dr. Teller was engaged as a theoretical physicist working In...
Page 18 - In 1892 he left his alma mater to become associate professor and later professor of physics at the University of Chicago, where he remained until 1901, when he was forty years old.
Page 18 - A t an early stage, the possibilities of releasing energy via nuclear fusion became apparent and much of his attention was subsequently devoted to this development. After World War II, Dr. Teller became professor of physics at the University of Chicago, where he remained until the threat of Soviet technological developments motivated him to return as assistant director to Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. In 1952, at the time of the first test of the hydrogen bomb, Dr. Teller joined the University...
Page 85 - Chairman, thank you for this opportunity to share with you some of my convictions concerning funds following the child in districts undergoing desegregation.
Page 33 - ... summary, how many pages? Dr. SLESSER. About 10 or at the most, 20 minutes. Senator NELSON. Let's try it. Ordinarily that procedure does not shorten testimony, because I have to go back to the original testimony which I have marked and repeat portions of it, but I will try. Dr. SLESSER. Mr. Chairman, first of all, I would like to express my appreciation for your permitting me to appear and giving me the opportunity to supplement Mr. Stetler's statement on the matter of therapeutic equivalency...

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