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FOUR MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, October 31, 1957 decent Nevada Atomic Tests Provide WeaSth of information for designers By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Correspondent Washington '1? Weapon designers are reaping a jackpot of information from the recent ly concluded atomic tests in Ne vada. An authoritative source told the United Press this informa tion will: Make possible more com pact and efficient hydrogen war heads for long-range missiles. Refine still further the host of special purpose small atomic warheads for use on the battle field or in anti-aircraft missiles. Anti-Missle Missile Speed development of an ef fective "anti-missile missile" for defense against enemy intercon tinental rockets with hydrogen warheads. Hasten perfection of pygmy H-bombs the so-called "clean" small weapons about which U.S. officials have been dropping hints of late. The 1957 Nevada tests began May 28 and ended Oct. 7. In all, 24 weapons or experimental de vices were exploded, 10 more than in the previous record year of 1955. Their power in terms ! of TNT ranged from around ; 1.000 tons to around 75,000 tons. The bomb which destroyed ! Hiroshima in World War II was a 15,000-tonner. ! This year's shots included the : first test firing of an operational ! air-to-air atomic missile. By op erational is meant that this was a completed weapon, not merely a test model. It is now being stockpiled in quantity. A similar warhead is being produced for the Nike-Hercules ground-to-air missile which will defend U.S. cities from enemy bombs. Unknown Results The tests also included the first U.S. explosion of an atomic charge deep under the ground. This shot fascinated scientists. Seismologists expect it and sim ilar shots planned for the future to provide new information about the earth's crust. Geolo gists speculate that, when the subterranean radioactivity has diminished enough to permit drilling, an Aladdin's cave of genvlike materials created by iksPRECKElS If SUGAR You will be, too! Look for Spreckels Granulated Sugar in extra-thrifty 2, 5, 10 and 25-lb. bags! I the atom's multi-million-degree heat will be found. Although the power of the j underground blast was only 1 1,000 to 3,000 tons, its shock waves were recorded on seismo graphs 350 miles away. An atomic authority said les sons learned in Nevada will be proof-tested in the 1958 program ! starting next April at Eniwetok in the Pacific. "The Nevada tests," he said, "are extremely valuable for the Pacific tests. The two programs are interrelated. Many of the Nevada shots are pilot experi ments whereas many in the Pa cific are actual weapons." He made these other general points: Information obtained this year in Nevada already is being reflected in weapons going into the stockpile. The Nevada experiments produced a tremendous pool of data which will be of vital im portance to weapons develop ment for years to come. The information thus gained proves there is no substitute for field testing in the U.S. effort to "maintain its superiority" in atomic weapons. Less Fallout Because of the worldwide fur or over radioactive fallout from tests, the Atomic Energy Com mission used some novel tech niques this year to reduce the radiation hazard. It fired 13 of the 24 shots from platforms raised by balloons to heights up to 1,500 feet. This kept the fireballs from touching the ground and thus minimized fallout. Nine explosions were from steel towers higher than any ever used before. The other two shots were the air-to-air test and the underground explosion. The air-to-air missile exploded at 15,000 feet, and practically all of its radioactive particles were dissipated in the atmo sphere. All of the raidoactivity in the underground tests was confined 900 feet below the sur face. The warheads of today are still big and heavy enough to re quire missiles of giant size to carry them. There are grounds for believing that the Russians are making less progress than this country in refining and shrinking hydrogen warheads. Some of the Soviet interconti nental missile motors are said to develop more than twice the thrust of the largest American rocket engines. Little Difference It is doubted, however, that the Russian hydrogen warhead packs any more violence than those the U.S. possesses and is developing. Nothing has been said about what kind of nuclear warhead is planned for the anti - missile missile. But whatever it is, it will incorporate design informa tion obtained in Nevada. The missile itself is still in the development stage. That it is considered even possible is a tribute to recent developments in long-range radar and to per fection of electronic brains cap able of calculating enemy missile trajectories in a split second and almost simultaneously trigger ing the anti - missile missile's electronic fire controls. Apparently an anti - missile missile, possibly a pigmy H bomb, will be tested in the forth coming tests. The AEC and De fense Department have said the new atomic tests "will advance the development of weapons for defense against aggression whether air-borne, missile-borne, or otherwise mounted." Try and Stop Me ft MSSfcff)BMM -By BENNETT CERF- APURSte-PROUD patroness of the arts asked a dealer, "Do these vrtists whose pictures cost so much learn to paint when theyi grow up, or do they inherit their talent?" "My dear lady," the dealer- replied patiently, "this hered ity business is nonsense. Truthfully, 4id you ever hear of the mothers and fathers of Picasso and lFtouault?" 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