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In this case, the snooper cut its engines at the crucial moment. Baffled, the Sidewinder darted for the next hottest target, which happened to be a locomotive hauling a muni tions train in the port area of Latakia. Instead of running up the tailpipe of the Red jet, the Sidewinder touched off the train. Up went Latakia, and war started. Of course, this was fiction, an incident in the novel, "Aias, Babylon." Could war start by accident, in fact? The answer is yes but you can also get struck by lightning. The odds against accidental war are heartening, and now a group of scientists at Ohio State University has come up with proposals for further reducing the danger. As the power and plenty of nuclear weapons increase, so does awareness of the peril within the atomic Pandora's box. New techniques against accidental war are being developed. And the world grows more sophisticated. A few years ago, the U-2 flights over Russia or the shoot ing down of our RB-47 over international waters in the Barents Sea conceivably could have triggered war. Now, national tempers are damped by the realization of the awful consequences of H-bomb war without a real winner. Several senior officers in the Pentagon gave me their per sonal opinion that even a nuclear explosion, either in the United States or Russia, would not of itself start a war. This would depend, naturally, on the scope of the disaster, where it occurred, and the international climate at the time. If Washington went up in a multimegaton mushroom during a time of crisis, it is doubtful if the President (or his suc cessor) would wait for further proof of hostilities. Five Ways to Trigger a War At Ohio State, the Mershon National Security Program, dedicated to expanding public knowledge of our hazardous times, assigned nine scientists under physicist John B. Phelps to examine the entire problem. The Mershon group divided the accidents that could trigger general war into five categories. Then they polled members of the Senate and House foreign relations and military affairs committees, the Rockefeller and Gaither Committees that had studied our defense position, and military experts for their opinions. The answers dilTered widely. Some thought danger in creases as armament grows. Others felt that as long as the U.S. maintains the capacity to destroy any enemy, even after receiving a surprise attack, no nuclear war can occur. Most viewed the spread of limited war as the most serious danger, with diplomatic miscalculation a close second. The least likely was "catalytic war," that is, a plot by a third nation to involve two others in nuclear holocaust. The two categories that drew most comment were the possibilities that war could be caused by human aberration the act of a madman and failures in defense systems such as radar, or faulty intelligence warnings. New safeguards against accidents in these last two cate gories are constantly being developed. It is now a fact that no single man, whether the pilot of a fighter-bomber or the captain of a Polaris submarine, could use his nuclear weapons to ignite a total war should he suddenly become Family Weekly. March 5. 1961 Curtain, weapons are at ready but been taken to avoid their being triggered by mistake deranged. Nor can war be triggered by a defective machine. Not long ago the Strategic Air Command gave a dramatic illustration of how these safety factors work. One of the loneliest outposts of America's defense-warning system is on a hill high above Thule, the big SAC base on storm-swept Greenland. On this hill, in the predawn hours, a sergeant fought sleep in the radar blockhouse. The radarscope's slender green finger, relentlessly revolving, sometimes has a hypnotic effect upon its human sentinels. Suddenly, the sergeant awoke. A cluster of blips glowed on the scope, racing toward North America over the Pole! He clocked their speed at an incredible 2,000 knots. The sergeant spoke excitedly into the intercom box. Twenty seconds later, the blips course and speed indi cated appeared as red arrowheads on the war-room maps of NORAD North American Air Defense in Colorado Springs, Colo. Evaluated, they appeared to represent super sonic jet bombers, perhaps the spearhead of a surprise at tack, perhaps timed to hit our northern interceptor bases at the same moment that nuclear-tipped ICBMs hit SAC bases within the United States. An alarm went out to Alaskan and Canadian interceptor fields, antiaircraft Nike sites, the headquarters of SAC in Omaha, and to the national command post in the basement of the Pentagon. It was midnight in the war room of SAC, nicknamed "The Hole," 50 feet underground. The senior controller on duty held NORAD on one phone while on another he spoke to Gen.' Thomas Power, SAC commander-in-chief, who had been awakened by a tiny Klaxon at the head of his bed. Power gave an order. The controller dialed two digits on the red phone, automatically connecting him to every SAC base. He spoke one code word. Fifteen minutes after Thule radar had sighted the blips, hundreds of SAC bombers with nuclear weapons were in the air, headed for targets. Then the blips vanished from- the radarscope as mys teriously as they had appeared! Their presence has never been fully explained, except that in the far north there are often strange electrical phenomena. And machines, like men, can have hallucinations. Immediately, a recall order went out by radio. What would have happened if one of the bombers had not heard the recall? The answer is nothing. SAC aircraft operate under a system called "positive control." They can go only so far toward their targets. Then, if they do not receive a signal to continue, they must return. If their communications fail, they must return. Furthermore, the signal to go on must be confirmed by either the captain or copilot. No single crewman, because of faulty hearing or sudden insanity, can decide to fly on. Only the President of the United States can give the order to unsheath our nuclear weapons. For this reason, the Presi dent is never out of communication with the Pentagon com mand post. No nuclear weapons can be armed and fused until the President so orders, and this applies to every weapons sys tem, including antiaircraft missiles, long-range rockets, fighter-bombers, and those of Polaris submarines and air craft carriers. Talk to the Enemy and Listen This country has taken every possible technical pre caution against one man starting a war. What of Russia? Many military men believe that the Russian precautions are equally stringent, but they fear that the danger will increase when nuclear weapons come into the possession of more irresponsible powers, especially Red China. The odds against a major accidental nuclear explosion are also remote ranging from an estimated 100,000 to one to 1 million to one. At least 12 times, nuclear bombs have been dropped by accident, burned on runways, or in crashes. There has never been any nuclear yield or significant radiation, even when the TNT, which is part of the weapon's trigger, has exploded. In considering this, the Mershon group of Ohio State Uni versity has made a number of recommendations to lessen the danger of accidental war. The scientists feel there should be official. and more open recognition of the possibility. They are for "recognition, in practice, that the traditional military principle which aims at keeping the enemy guessing at one's intentions may be dangerously out of date." 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