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Thursday, April 7, 1955
On-Air Test of Atomic Missile May Save Countless Lives
.Washington (U.P.) The
atomic weapon exploded six
miles above the Nevada desert
may save millions of American
lives.
That could be so, officials here
believe, because it:
1. Portends a time when this
country "will be able to throw up
"a barrier of atomic firepower"
against enemy H-bombers.
2. Adds a powerful new det
errent to enemy air-atomic at
tack by cutting down drastically
its chances of success.
Once data from Wednesday's
successful high shot is analyzed,
official sources predicted,
atomic warheads will go into
quantity production for a va
riety of anti-aircraft weapons.
These will include air-to-air
and ground-to-air guided mis
siles capable of destroying
enemy bombers hundreds or
thousands of miles from target,,
depending on when and where
they are detected.
Recently an official made it
plain that this country possesses
a big enough stockpile of nu
clear explosives to divert large
amounts to missiles of the kind
demonstrated Wednesday.
"We are up to our ears in the
stuff," he said.
Wednesday's test was the cli
max of much thinking and ex-
perimention. Long since, the
Atomic Energy Commission h'ad
learned how to compress the
fury of the wartime Hiroshima
bomb, a huge and awkward con
traption, into a small caliber
weapon capable of being deliver
ed by cannon or in rockets.
The new air-to-air atomic
weapon the Defense Depart-
Eddyville Auloist Killed in Accident
Monmouth, Ore. (U.R)
Armand J. Foster, 26, Eddyville,
Ore., was killed yesterday when
he was thrown from a car in a
collision with , a log truck and
crushed by logs falling from
the truck.
State police said, the accident
occurred about eight miles south
west of here on Airlie road.
Three "others in the car were
injured. They included Verlin
Foster, 23, Armand's brother;
Robert Rariden, 23, and Charles
Rariden, 22, both of Pedee near
here. Glen W. Davis, Monmouth,
the truck driver, was unhurt.
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ment has said, can be propelled
from interceptor aircraft.
Although Wednesday's ex
plosion in the sky was described
unofficially as comparable to
5,000 to 10,000 tons of TNT,
there is reason to believe U. S.
weaponeers can make compara
tively small warheads of 20,000
to 50,000 tons TNT equivalent.
Such weapons, even in pros
pect, appear to rule out of fu
ture warfare the massive bomber
fleets of World War II.
It also rules out xhe penalty
of a "near miss " A near miss
with an atomic air weapon
could be as good as a hit.
And just one H-bomber
knocked down could -mean the
survival of a metropolis which
otherwise would count its cas
ualties in the millions.
The theory is that the new
weapon will be hurled at attack
ing planes while they are still
roaring over the continent's
northern waste lands or while
they are far at sea if they come
over water.
Wednesday's test proved, how
ever, that atomic anti-aircraft
rockets could be used effectively
high over populated areas. with
out serious, radiation or blast
danger to persons on the ground.
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