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The article focuses on the nuclear test ban issue. The issue has entered has entered the arena of the highest exchanges, dramatically imitated with the publication of the correspondence between U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Soviet Union premier Nikita Khrushchev. The intensity of the controversy is a result of the narrowing area of disagreement between the Soviet Union and the U.S. It is stressed that Arms Control and Disarmament Agency must at all costs strive to design a system which permits improvements in detection, identification, and on-site inspection techniques to be incorporated rapidly and effectively

When nuclei from the lymphocytes of mice immunized with rabbit erythrocytes are injected into unprimed animals the number of cells forming antibody to rabbit erythrocytes increases to a level approaching that of the immunized donor animals. The specificity of the response induced by nuclei is equally as good as that induced by native antigen. When ‘T’ and ‘B’ mice are immunized with rabbit erythrocytes a poor response is observed but when the nuclei from primed ‘T’ animals are used to immunize ‘B’ mice the number of antibody-producing cells is very much increased. In view of current theories about cellular co-operation it is pointed out that this co-operative effect of ‘T’ lymphocyte nuclei is independent of both cell membrane and additional antigen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the development of novel ways and techniques to trace nuclear explosions by researchers from the U.S. Works by Norman J. Holter and W. R. Glasscock aimed to detect atomic bomb testing, have generated great interests from the scientific community. The work illustrates a simple, cheap, but highly effective technique. The apparatus was set up by Holter and Glasscock at Helena, Montana, for a different purpose, namely to study the natural radioactivity of the air, and of rain and snow samples, as a possible aid in discovering large bodies of radioactive ore.