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Monday, Dee. 21, 1959
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Anti-Satellite Defense
To Be Reedy For 1965
By RAY CRO.MLEY
N'EA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA) - By
1965, the Department of Defense
expects to have a guided missile
(hat will shoot down a satellite
The object: to destroy enemy
satellites and, eventually, enemy
(pace platforms that spy from
the sky. These missiles also will
be designed to blast enemy mis
sile-launching satellites, triggered
to fire on the U.S. in time of war.
Details of the new missile sys
tem haven't been worked out yet.
It will be at least six months
before Radio Corporation of Amer
ica which has been given a $H00,
000 "detailed-study" contract
comes up with the preliminary con
cepts. Research for the past six
months on the project has been
aimed at proving it's a practical
idea.
The Ideas that have been worked
out so far are secret for the most
part. This much is known:
The missile will be designed to
"observe" the enemy satellite,
"see" what it's doing by radar,
Infra-red, or some other as-yct-
unknown device. It will send that
Information to the earth. It will
have some sort of "homing" do
Vice maybe infra red to help
guide it to the enemy satellite. But
a major share of its guidance will
be from the earth.
There's one big bonus inherent
In the new system. Though de
signed to hit satellites, this sys
tem is likely, defense men think,
to replace Nike-Zeus. And, further
more, it's likely to replace the
Nike anti-missile even before that
multi-billion dollar network is fully
Installed and operating.
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Some Pentagon planners think
the new missile may be the fore
runner of a new series of guided
missiles that could begin to replace
ballistic missiles in the late 1960's
Despite the increase in funds
being asked of Congress for the
Nike-Zeus system of defense
against Soviet ballistic missiles,
the Department of Defense is go
ing ahead on the assumption that
hy the time the Nike-Zeus system
is fully operational sometime in
the middle 1960's it already will
be largely ineffectual against the
advanced missiles the Russians
will have by then.
The thinking in the Pentagon is
that by the mid ineo's, Soviet mis
siles are likely to be of a type
that change their course. They'll
citl.er be some Sort of zig-zag
missile, or a type that gradually
veers from a predictable ballistic
course. And, worse yet, the Red
missiles by then are likely to come
in from such a high altitude that
Nike-Zeus will be impractical as
a defense.
By the end of the 1960's, these
Pentagon military scientists ex
pect, both the Russians and the
U.S. will be able to launch mis
silcs with hydrogen warheads from
some sort of space platform.
The virtues of the new missile
system will be these:
It will be able to seek out and
destroy enemy ballistic missiles
that zig and zag or otherwise
change their course.
It will be able to catch and
blast enemy ballistic missiles fired
from Russian space platforms
hundreds of miles up in the sky
and catch them high enough to
protect the U.S. from high-in-the-
sky atomic blasts.
This anti-satellite missile will
not be cheap. An operational sys
tem would cost in the billions.
Probably a lot of billions. But De
fense Department men hope to
make some savings by incorporat
ing in the system as much as pos
sible from present-day missiles,
guidance systems, defense radar
and communications.
They're working, in tact, on see
ing how much they'll be able to
salvage from the Nike-Zeus sys
tem to use in this project, if and
when Nike-Zeus is installed and
this new system is ready to go,
So it's not likely that all the
Nike-Zeus construction funds will
go down the drain.
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Industry Asks Speedup
In A-Power Development
By FRANK CAREY
Associated Press Science Writer
WASHINGTON W Calls for a
speed-up in the American program
for developing cheap electric
power from the atom have
come recently from private indus.
try and tho government's Atomic
Energy Commission.
For the past 10 years, the indus
try and the AKC have been part
ners in the effort to harness the
atom. The government has spent
more than 750 million dollars on the
program, while private industry
nas invested aoom 5U0 minion
Dr. Chauncy Starr, vice presi
dent of North American Aviation,
Inc., and a key atomic industrial
ist, said in the presence of many
of his colleagues and government
atomic officials that the once-ac
tive push to develop economic nu
clear electric power has slowed.
He blamed both the government
and some sections of industry,
but especially the government.
In fact, said Starr, it's becoming
so difficult to remain optimistic
about the future prospects under
present conditions that many com
panies are turning to other fields
of endeavor.
FOR ONE THING, said Starr,
the government has given "shoe
string" financial support to com
mercial atomic power develop
mentcompared with what it has
given to reactors for military use.
At the same meeting where Dr.
Starr spoke the annual convention
of the Atomic Industrial Forum
the AlX's chief, John A. McCone,
also indicated there was a need
for stepping up the pace of the
program.
McCone offered no criticisms of
anyone's efforts, but spoke of Rus
sia's "facility to direct and con
centrate effort."
'If we are to continue our lead
ership in the atomic field and, in
deed, if we are to match the So
viets in other scientific areas," he
said, "we must find ways to match
their facility to concentrate upon
and advance the important under
takings even at the expense of
projects of lesser importance."
One w a y of doing this, he said,
"is to develop types of coopera
tion" between the AEC and the
atomic industry "that will increase
the effectiveness of our dedication
to a common purpose" achieve
ment of economic nuclear power
at the earliest possible date. Mc
Cone said industry and the AEC
must now place greatest emphasis
on reactor concepts that offer the
highest promise Of early progress
and drop or hold in a research
status those that don't offer equal
promise.
MEANWHILE, what is the status
of the American effort in the nu
clear power field? -
The United States now has near
ly .30 civilian nuclear power proj
ects either in existence, under con
struction or planned in various
sections of the country. Their
locations, types, present status and
electrical capabilities in terms of
electrical kilowats (ekw) are
shown on the accompanying map.
In addition, two American-made
stationary power plants are being
built abroad one at Mol, Belgium,
and scheduled to go into operation
early next year; the other at Kahl-
am Main, Germany, also sched
uled for operation in 1960.
Also, three other American reac
tors are presently in the planning
stage for operation at Santa Lucia.
Cuba, and Milan and Naples, Italy.
All reactors for foreign export
have been or are being purchased
from American industries by the
countries involved.
ui tne reactors located m tnis
country, oniy mrce are actually
feeding atomic electric power into
commercial- grids at present, and
of the three, only one the reactor
located at Shippingport, Pa. is do
ing so on a large-scale basis,
The Shippingport device has an
electrical capacity of 60,000 kilo
wats. It feeds power into the Du.
quesne Light Co. system.
mese three reactors still are
considered experimental, despite
their practical use, and none is
producing power at a cost competi
tive with power from conventional
fuel sources.
THERE ARE other electricity-
producing reactors but their pur
pose is even more clearly experi
mental. One at Lemont, III., pro
duces power solely for the Ar-
gonne National Laboratory. There
are two research reactors at the
AEC's Idaho Falls research and
testing plant and one at' Oak
Ridge, Tenn.
The Dresden Nuclear Power Sta
tion at Morris, III., 50 miles south
west of Chicago, achieved "initial
criticality" that is, achieved a
nuclear chain reaction for the first
time in mid-October. This plant
is scheduled to begin, producing
electric power in appreciable quan
tities early next year, and
is slated to go into full operation
by mid-1960.
Officials of the General Electric
Company, which built this plant
for the Commonwealth Edison Co.
and the co-sponsoring Nuclear
Power Group, Inc., told reporters
recently they expected the plant
would be producing atomic power
at a cost competitive with power
produced by conventional fuels in
its geographic area by 1966.
There are eight different types
or concepts of power reactors
which the United States rates as
having technical possibility for
power generation and either has
in operation or at some stage of
experimentation. They differ main
ly in the type of "moderator" em
ployeda moderator being a ma
terial that is designed to keep a
chain reaction going in the urani
um or. plutonium fuel used in all
reactors.
Recently, a top AEC reactor of
ficial said that with sufficient re
search and development support
from the federal government and
private industry, the first six of
these could be made competitive
with conventional power in high
cost fuel areas in five to eight
years.
This official Dr. Frank Pitt-
man, director of the AEC's divi
sion of reactor development said
new studies indicated the pres
surized w a te r reactor system
napes up as the best bet for
reaching the goal at the earliest
time. Several others are rated not
ar behind.
The United States is the most
technologically advanced at pres
ent on pressurized water type. This
is the kind used in the Shipping
port system. It's also the type used
in all but one of the atomic sub
marines that have been built or are
planned.
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Butler Battles Bluebloods,
Sacked For Social Sipping
LUTON IIOO, England (UPI)
Had the butler been at the bottle
when he served the Queen?
"Yes," says his former boss,
Lady Anastasia (Zia) Wernher.
That's why I sacked him."
"No," says the tall and stately
William O'Rourke, 37, a man of
impeccable bearing and dignity
who has been serving bluebloods
in the Luton Iioo mansion of Sir
Harold and Lady Wernher (Elec-t.-olux,
Ericsson Telephones, etc.
etc.) for ten years.
O'Rourke's downfall started a
month ago when Queen Elizabeth
and Prince Philip were guests of
the Wernhers. O'Rourke told of
it as he sipped beer morosely
with reporters in a nearby pub.
Naturally when there is a
shooting party the servants have a
drop," he said. "It is the custom.
I had a few when the Queen was
here. But tight? No!
Townsend Takes
Belgian Bride
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -Princess
Margaret's onetime suit
or. Peter Townsend, was married
in Brussels today to Marie-Luce
Jamagne, 20, daughter of an An
twerp tobacco tycoon, a friend of
Townsend reported.
The friend said the ceremony
was performed at noon.
The engagement of Townsend
44, and Marie-Luce, his secretary,
was announced by tier mother
Oct. 9.
Townsend's romance with Prin
cess Margaret broke up four years
ago. He had been divorced. The
Church of England forbids mar
riage of a divorced person. so long
as the other party to the divorce
is living. The former Mrs. Town-
send is living and Princess Mar
garet bowed to the rule.
, "Could I have served the Queen
and Prince with wines nnH mnalc
faultlessly if I had been tieht?"
he asked.
O'Rourke paused and sinned
again at his beer.
"I didn't soill a dron or knnek
over a glass," he said. "I was
perfect."
Maybe he was but the clincher
came last week when the Duke
and Duchess of Glnueeuler ui p r
guests in the home of the Wern
hers.
"I had a brief snort." O'Rourke
admitted. "Her ladvshin
displeased with me. She seldom
annus and can always smell it
when a chap has one."
She apparently smelled it and
O Rouke's career as a butler
came to an end.
O'Rourke. who admitted a lik
ing for beer, wine, champagne
ana wniskey, concluded sadly:
"I want a job like an ordinary
fellow. I've had enough waiting on
the famous and wealthy."
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MOSCOW (UPI) - A Russian
engineer thinks he can warm up
winters in Soviet Asia and Japan
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to the sea of Okhotsk.
The official Tass News Agency
said N. Romanov proposed to
channel the North Pacific's warm
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Okhotsk, warming Asian shores.
Romanov would regulate the
flow of warm water through the
Nevelsky straits, which separate
Sakhalin Island from the Soviet
Asian coast, the agency said.
By constructing a dam in the
straits with gates opening north
wards, Romanov figured 1.080,
000,000,000 cubic kilometers of
warm water could be forced into
the Sea of Okhotsk.
The gates would be closed at
ebb tide to prevent the water
from flooding southwards again
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Romanov said if his scheme
were put into effect "the people
of the Soviet maritime regions
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snow," Tass reported.
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