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
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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
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-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?"
"No, I didn't," admitted the
patroness, "and to tell you
the truth, Ii never heard of
Picasso and IRouault, either."
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The late Enyile Henri Gauv
reau, live wiqe editor in his
day of sortie flamboyant
papers and inags, .stoically
summed up hi): career in this
sententious sentence: "I was
part of that slrange race of
people, aptly described as spending their lives doing things they
detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need
to impress peop&5 they dislike."
C 1957, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
EXPENSIVE COMIC BOOK
Evansville, IncL , (IP) Hollis
Green, owner of a barbershop
here, is searching: for a '$275
comic book. Greein told police
he hid the monqy in one of
many comic booksi stacked in a
back room of his shop. Some
youngsters came in to trade com
ic books, and after the swap,
Green discovered tihe book con
taining his money "was missing.
The Roman Catholic Church
gives the date of the crucifixion
of Jesus as April 1, 30 A.D.
DINNERS INSURED
Mt. Holly, N. J. OP) The late
Charles H. Griscom liked to
think of Thanksgiving as a fam
ily affair. To maintain the tra
dition, the Medford Township
farmer left a $1,000 trust fund
to defray the expense of an an
nual family turkey dinner each
Thanksgiving.
Fossil footprints, relics of the
pre-historic era when dinosaurs
roamed the land, have been dis
covered at Gill, Mass.
OACHID FOR DRIVER
Midvale, Utah (IP) Seeking
to uphold the city's safety record,
the Midvale Business and Pro
fessional Women's club joined
with local police to select the
best woman driver of the week
and presented her with an orchid
corsage.
Syracuse, N. Y. (IP) James
Roper and Willie Scott picked
the wrong place to violate a city
ordinance by setting off fire
crackers. Both were booked by
police after being called by
Deputy Sheriff Leonard Crane,
who said the pair popped the
crackers outside his window.
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