Show THE OLD prospector SAYS dear editor the U S submarine nautilus run by atom power has gone 26 miles without needing more fuel and th ere am t no telling how much fur ther it will run without refueling and there don dont t seem to be no doubt now that a plane can be run with atom power as one of our pla nes took up a atom plant and flew around with it for some time they just didn dian t hook it up to run the pla ne so its no doubt a safe bet that i it won wont t be so very many years be fore cars will run by atoms with enough power sealed in the car at the factory to run it as long as it lasts and I 1 there wouldn t hardly be no limit as to how fast a automobile would run I 1 probably won t be here then and if I 1 was I 1 d be plumb to git out on the highway fact is I 1 im ni from some where to a right smart to git out on the highway now in the news about a billion dollars being put in the new defense budget for developing missies atom powered ships and planes etc it seems to me one 0 of f the main items is ballis tic missies that could be shot a cross oceans it looks like man can and is bound to develop a ballistic missle weigh ing hundreds of tons and carrying a big hydro hydrogen Aen bomb that can be shot thousands of miles high into the air at a angle aimed so that when the fuel burns out this heavy thing will fall on a target many thousands of miles away landing at a speed of around 40 miles a second with a big explosion that will blow every thing to bits for miles around man s bitting smarter all the time but he shore am t getting no wiser he am t never had too much gump tion and I 1 im m he hes s fast los ing that yours truly THE OLD prospector |