Until Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the US and UK had released more than twice as much radiation into the atmosphere as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still coming down.

Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.

Now, the picture is clouded, and even US Sens. James O. Eastland and John C. Stennis, who remained loyal to the ticket, are uncertain of their status.

He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and several foreign academies and societies, including the Danish Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and US National Academy of Sciences.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

* is the name of three different US warships between 1869 and 1972

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US $ 100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises.

AFI FEST is the only film festival in the US to hold FIAPF ( Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films ) accreditation.

Every natural-born citizen of a foreign state who is also an American citizen and every natural-born American citizen who is a citizen of a foreign land owes a double allegiance, one to the United States, and one to his homeland ( in the event of an immigrant becoming a citizen of the US ), or to his adopted land ( in the event of an emigrant natural born citizen of the US becoming a citizen of another nation ).

* 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving " intentionally false statements " in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.

As of April 24, 2008, the average monthly salary is 75, 000 drams ( about $ 242 US dollars ).

American Samoa is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, US Department of the Interior.

US dollar is used

* 1790 – The first US Census is conducted.

( It is important to note that in the US some states prohibit the use of the word ' Architect ' to be used in any way to describe an unlicensed person who is in the architectural profession.

There is an active trade in the shells, which sell for more than US $ 1, 400 per metric tonne.

Assault in some US jurisdictions is defined more broadly still as any intentional physical contact with another person without their consent ; but in the majority of the United States, and in England and Wales and all other common law jurisdictions in the world, this is defined instead as battery.

The Triumph of Time is also the US title of James Blish's novel A Clash of Cymbals.

A RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile is launched from USS Shiloh ( CG-67 ) | USS Shiloh, a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser | Ticonderoga-class cruiser.

Most of the US midwest is on square mile grids for surveying purposes.

In 1997, the Britain based Odinic Rite ( OR ) founded a US chapter ( ORV ).

* Commentary ( magazine ), a US public affairs journal, founded in 1945 and formerly published by the American Jewish Committee

The first was Afghan Wireless, which is US based that was founded by Ehsan Bayat.

In 1995, a loose group of amateur microscopists, drawn from several organizations in the UK and US, founded a site () for microscopy based on the knowledge and input of amateur ( perhaps better referred to as ' enthusiast ') microscopists.

Gunsite, a US firearms training facility, decided against teaching machine pistol firing when it was founded in 1976.

One 1941 property from the Waco, Texas-based Alamo Plaza Courts chain, the first US motel chain ( founded 1929, expansion stopped with the departure of the chain's founders in the 1950s ), still stands on U. S. Route 190 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but has been declining steadily since a change of ownership in the mid-1980s.

The Giants were founded by Tim Mara with an investment of US $ 500 in 1925 and became one of the first teams in the then five-year-old NFL.

The US Secret Service was founded in 1865 and was for some time the main investigative body for the federal government.

Jimmy Redmon independently developed his own production boards in the US under the name of ' Redline Designs ' at the same time Finn was releasing the ' Skurfer ' ( Finn and Redmon later founded ' Liquid Force ').

October 6: US Naval War College founded.

In the US, the Electric Boat Company was founded in 1899 and built the first submarine purchased by the U. S. Navy in 1900.

Magnavox ( Latin for " great voice ") is a US electronics company founded by Edwin Pridham and Peter L. Jensen, who invented the moving-coil loudspeaker in 1915 at their lab in Napa, California.

The International Meditation Society and Student International Meditation Society ( SIMS ) were founded in the US in the 1960s.

Athletics became codified and standardised via the English AAA and other general sports organisations in the late 19th century, such as the Amateur Athletic Union ( founded in the US in 1888 ) and the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques ( founded in France in 1889 ).

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, a prominent Physiocrat, emigrated to the US and his son founded DuPont, the world's second largest chemicals company.

He returned to Bloomington where he wrote for the family newspaper, The Daily Pantagraph, which was founded by his maternal great grandfather Jesse W. Fell, who had also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager in his 1858 race for the US Senate.

In 2000, Susan Constanse founded the first US group The Pittsburgh Stuckists in Pittsburgh — the second group to be founded outside the UK.

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

It followed a rather different timescale than the US examples mentioned above, as it was founded in 1964 and ceased to be a conglomerate when it split itself into four separate listed companies between 1995 and 1997.

They are represented in the US by two National Organizations, The American Naturopathic Association ( ANA ) founded in 1919 by Benedict Lust, representing about 5000 practitioners, and the American Naturopathic Medical Association ( ANMA ) founded in 1981 and representing about 4000 practitioners with several levels of certification.

* Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation, Newark, N. J., an US American and British manufacturer of various electrical instruments including exposure meters, founded by Edward Weston ( chemist )