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"""" t.utuHU, uhluuh - SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1963 g J ischief Red China Could Do With Nuclear Device Is Boundless M By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Presi International Communist China will trigger an atomic' test ex plosion some day, whether in this or some future year, authorities agree. Some experts take com fort in the assumption that this first explosion will not be a weapon but of an ex perimental device of some sort that couldn't be used in warfare. They say what is obvi ously true that in this age of supersonic bombers and hypersonic missiles an effective system for deliv ering nuclear warheads on targets is not only costlier but by all odds more impor tant than development of the warheads themselves. In short, an atomic test explosion will not by itself mean Red China has sud denly emerged as a mature nuclear power capable of trading blows with the United States or, for that matter, Soviet Russia. But other experts con sider this a cold sort of comfort. Of course, said one, the first Red Chinese con traption "won't be the sleekest A - bomb ever made." "But," he said, "suppose they decide to test it over Quemoy or Mat su or Tai pei. Suppose it is just something they can hoist aboard a piston job and roll out the side door when the time comes." What mischief Commu nist China could do with the crudest sort of nuclear weapons, or devices, seems boundless. There has been much talk that some day Nationalist Chinese soldiers may invade the Communist mainland. To do some more suppos ing, suppose the Reds don't have a trim and glossy war head for a trim and glossy missile or a trim and glos sy bomber. Suppose they simply mine the invasion routes with awkward and bulky gadgets capable of blowing entire divisions into eternity in a second. Suppose for their own purposes the Chinese Com munists figured a nuclear war between the United States and USSR would be good for them. They just might be able to trigger it by dropping a sneak atomic "device" on For mosa at a moment of ten sion between the two great nuclear powers. The French, who want to become a nuclear power, have singed at least five atomic explosions in the past three years. But France still isn't a nuclear power. It has no border - jumping missiles. It has some good airplanes. But are they good enough to get past Russia's rocket defenses against bombers? Experts doubt it. Not Likely lo Attack So the French cannot yet consider themselves a nu clear power compared with Russia, the United States, or Great Britain. They are hardly likely to attempt a nuclear attack against any body. But who knows what the Red Chinese, who are not in the same league even with France, might attempt if they had a few crude atomic "devices" available. "They might roll them on a boat, beach the boat on Quemoy, and roll 'em off," one student of atom ic warfare remarked. "Then the fat would be in the fire We midht feel impelled to retaliate in Kina. u we did, what would Russia do?" It takes a lot of testing to condense the power of a city-killing nuclear bomb into compact missile war heads which can be flipped across oceans and conti nents to targets deep in an enemy's territory. It takes a lot of testing to make an atomic weapon that can be fired by a bat tlefield bazooka against an enemy platoon. It takes test after test after test to dou ble the violence of a Po laris warhead. Without testing there could never have been an H-bomb, and wrihout much further testing there could have not been pint-sized "clean" H-bombs which the Atomic Energy commis sion says it is developing for p'acetime blasting rel alively free of radio-activity. The first H-bomb ever exploded was a huge ma chine which could have been delivered on target onlv by an ocean liner. The very next, however, was one that could be dropped from a high-flying airplane. So there is a difference between test "devices" and actual weapons. The dif ference is in ease of deliv ery. But one may be as de structive as the other. Said one authority, "Any body can knock off an atomic explosion If they have enough of the stuff." In the case of Red China, the "stuff undoubtedly would be plutonium, a bomb explosive manufac tured In nuclear reactors. Red China does have some nuclear reactors. Rus sia helped her get them and may now wish she hadn't Mainland China also has some very fine atomic and aerospace scientists. Two of them. Dr. K. S. Tsien and Dr. W. Z. Chien, received their scientific training in the United States. Given the mechanical, electronic, and ordinance engineering skills modern weaponry demands, there is no doubt that Communist China could one day be come a genuine nuclear power. As for raw materials, "in any land mass as huge as China there are bound to be large uranium reserves," one expert said. Mining uranium is not easy, but Red China with its 700-mil-lion population, this source said, "has a lot of hands and a lot of backs." The first Red Chinese atomic test will reverber ate throughout the world. To the nations of Asia, one student said, "It will be a psycho - military event of tremendous symbolic sig nificance." , East Has Not Forgotten The first A-bomb was ex ploded by a Western power I against an Eastern nation. The IVast has never forgot ten that. Many a Japanese will tell you his country, after the agony of Hiroshima and would never making atomic Nagasaki, think of weapons. But if Red China should explode just one atomic test device, however primi tive, how would Japan re act? "Japan," said one man" who has seen much of that island nation, "would nev er stop until she had be come a nuclear power. She would go all out. "And there is no doubt whatsoever," he added, "that she could do it." , 'rjvi.--. 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