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ARE the Russians bluffing with their claim to have beaten the West in developing the inter- continental rocket?

My Inquiries showed that far too many people in places high and low are tak- ing comfort with this idea.

I am convinced that the Russians arc not bluffing. The record shows that they do not bluff when they make official claims of this magni. tude.

THREE times before they

have made cqually im portant claims which few in the West believed because they were not technically possible." Yet every one proved to be correct.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1957,

Yes, I'm sure they've got it

BUT AS I SEE IT

THAT'S NOT THE REAL DANGER AT ALL

that they had the atom bomb. The U.S. scientists and They were politicians shrugged this off as propaganda. horrified when the explosion of a Soviet atom bomb was detected later that year, EARLY in 1949 the 2 IN 1993 Malenkov announced that Russia had the

leaders hinted

Again this was dismissed as propaganda,

Russian

ROCKETS

H-bomb.

THIS IS THE GRIM PICTURE

The Russians claim their new inter- as 5,000 miles. This newsmap, by John continental missile has a range of AT Bodle, shows the areas which may come LEAST 3,000 miles. It MAY be as much within its orbit.

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Allied Intelligence agents had consistently reported that Russia was apparently not working on the giant weapon. In any case it was "not possible technically" for the Rus sians to have advanced so far. Again the experts were wrong.

Even when the Russians revealed details of their H-test, the British and U.S. defence chiefs did not believe that they had dropped the weapon from an airplane as was claimed.

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Was there a bad mistake made 10 years ago a mistake that gives Russia

a 10 year lead in the race for the

FISSILE MISSILE?

X/HISPERS of a mistake of auch momentous propor- W long that it might give ut whelming advantage in atomic fire-power are emerging from Bocret defenco departments in London and Washington.

Defence chlefs fear that Russia may have n commanding lead in the long-range rockota which will soon replace bombers because they now realise that British and U.S. rocket research took the wrong turning 10 years ago.

and devised which can power

this

New solid fuels have been

rockets to distances of 1,500 miles and mort..

fall-out from H-bombardment., rockets at the time of the this range in service now."

The real danger of the Suez crisis last year.

we

Π

There is evidence from continental

weapons in anger, Intelligence reports

Bources that the though they will use them as other a political threat.

Russians did not make The U.S. Strategic Air Force, Jinistake.

These missiles will be much which

Mall continually

almpler and cheaper to build fuelled up and ready to go," If this is correct then than the liquid-fueled types will remain a powerful stop-

Bulganin Allied Marshal deterrent

was previously attempted. rockets are reads.

almost certainly not bluffing "It we had realised this And Krushchev in aware of when he claimed he could possibility 10

years nge The terrible inter-continental

bombard Britain with could have had weapons with consequences

radioactive

Government rocket expert snid. How could they have done this when even the U.S., with

"There seems to be little its commanding lead, had not Russlan rocket to the West in

view is not the weapon The defence chiefs did not doubt that the latest solid yet made a hydrogen weapon my

but the fremendous droppable from ព nircraft? Itself,

threat seriously fuels could even be used for inter-continental rockets Time has proved again that the background of technology and take this

were satisfied the

with ranges of up. 10 5,000 Hussfans were telling the truth, engineering skill which has then. They

that it was not technically milles and inore." In EARLY 2

3055 the made it possible. ⚫ Russians stated that

possible for the Russians to

The

that donger Is

the bind tol up

the world's

have produced rockets cap-

Russians did not back the atomic power station. This, WHATEVER happens in the able of operating accurately wrong horse 10 years

10 too, whe "nothing but propa- current disarmament tulks at such ranges.

probably because they were ganda" according to Western

jess

Impressed by the atom experts. But when we all I believe the harsh facts

life alomto

will eventually went to the Geneva Atoms-for force both sides into agreement. red which is making the.

Now an event has occur- German work. Peace conference, later that But the Communists will never

They had specialised in solid yeor there was

Russian

experts fuels before the

if war and documentary film of the station,

they have gone on doing so, s which British scientists have

seems likely, they must

be head--perhaps by 'several Foals.

they The facts

Arst

desist from

of

trying to defeat Western defence

economie com- change this opinion.

REMEMBER?

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Capitalism by since visited. Remember, too, ition,

This Inter-continental rocket how Igor Kurchatov, the

Russions' Is a symbol of the Russian alomie chief, stortled technical challenge to the West. Harwell scientists by his

are out to beat ur rovelations of Soviet advances They

atomics, electronics, jet-egionum your mind back to the being tired for

understand its significance Laming II-bomb power a and every Surely it is time we realistą which living standards depend end of the war when scientists 1,000 miles-Arings by troops

we

have nil

field

under-

and which to an exporting

in year ago?

that

skilt for for too long.

The West has been far too

estinated Russion technical nation like Britain, mean bread throughout

and butter.

קט

The Russians have whittled lentists down our lead in almost every ield of defence and in some

For more than two years now there have been Intelll- Bence reports of Russian rockets distances of

the world were and not simply research tests. staggered by the technical brilliance of the liquid fuel British and U.S. defence Why are they being 50

Gernion V2 rocket used to chiefs have

repeatedly pointed complacent about the "leads" in successful? Because they have bombard London,

out that the side which first this field and that. It is all loo keen investing lavishly to build

"Fissile Missile-the gels the in enormous

of pool obvious that by relentless effort

Until then almost all military push-button rocket capable of and technicians for

rockets had been little more delivering an H-bomb over many years,

Guy Fawkes "fire- thousands of miles-will hold a baltalluns in

This is the era of the big then glant

propelled by military advantage that could The works"-missiles science.

some other sort of be decisive. powder country which devotes the most

solid fuel, money and men to a project is almost certainly bound to win. From the moment the rat

Contrast the D.S. record

V2's were captured British THE myth that these Russian in the drug field since the war

achievements are due to with Britain's to reallee the and U.S. rocket experts

that all long-range British scientists truth of this; no shanghaied or recrulted after medical advance of note since weapons in the future

use liquid fucl. drug bten penicillin; every major has again Resurrected. I was involved in and vaccina American, thoughi the round-up of the German Individually our scientists arc rocket scientists. The facts are belter, that almost all the Germans of note from the main research centro

cases are now altend.

the

the

wor

Shared

German

st Penemunde sur-

Pay them

Bairds,

few

the

convinced

were

would

THE POLARIS

and

the

E Americans British are now striving to make good their mistake. The This meant designing ex new US ballistic rocket, the tremely compilcuted engines to Polaris, with a range of 1,500 burn these fuels-a drawboek miles, is to be propelled by which has slowed down rocket selid fuel, development for several years.

It is possible that the 2,000- many giant

mentioned rendered to the Americans in WE can no longer depend on emember how 60

test rockets, like the 100-foot- mile-range weapon Bavaria, and were shared out the emergence of a

long Atlas, have come to grief by Mr Duncan Sandys, the between Britain and the U.S. gentuses--the

The Russians got only these Wetson-Watts, the Whitler and in America berause of fuel Defence Minister, recently will

be powered in the same way. explosions failures?

or few who were not wanted by the Flemings.. The Allies or would not work

But if the Russians havo We must copy the Russians

But the scientists were achieved a load in the "Fleelle for them. They may have in- by paying scientists and

convinced that the Missile" race they will need absolutely much duced many of the Junior engineers

the much simpler Guy Fawkes type some catching now. technicians to work in Russia, cream of the youngsters from but the chlef Inventors went to the schools

of rocket burning solid fuel- will take p which the Services would have the U.S.

technical work.

they preferred because Indeed the Russians have We must copy them by paysafer to store and much easier probably beaten the West ing the science teachers in the because they did not slavishly schools and universlten

even lo follow the German line of more research The British ond industry, Americans did--and got bogged This is our hope of pre- last few months venting slow economic strangu- | uruxpected de-

a far velopments have · Russia shown that the

down.

SO

that

the scientista in than

I do not believe there is nticn, which I rate as much risk that the Russians more real threat from will take advantage of their than sudden rocket bombard- rocket lead by

Aring inter- ment.

INDIA

Sewn up

Crumples

Mid East

falls

so incredibly

dynamic

are

១១ combat-hod use in future for long-range work.

Now in the

scientists were

wrong.

Germany

nddled

And their behaviour in Syria shows that they are capable of moiting the utmost use of any. temperary advantage. they cbtain.

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

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