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Show d$eliind the JJeacfined 1 " " 1 " On the contrary, West Germany Ger-many has been stepping up pressure pres-sure on the U.S. during the Berlin "crisis" to supply its army with tactical nuclear weapons. Bonn has been arguing that the U.S. cannot withhold from a front-line ally weapons as good as those of the enemy. On the other side of the world, there is increasing evidence evi-dence that Red China is further ahead in A-weapons development develop-ment than hitherto believed. Reliable Re-liable Japanese sources say Red China now has elaborate nuclear test facilities in north-central Tibet, and that Red China may bypass development of low-yield nuclear weapons in favor of a crash program to develop a neutron neu-tron bomb. Another nightmarish twist to the frightening new A-era we are entering can be seen in the fact that Red China, with some of the world's most brilliant I theoretical physicists, now is training specially-chosen Cubans in nuclear weapons development. Castro has always leaned more toward Red China than Moscow. It's expected that a Red Chinese A-bomb will be followed by the announcement that Peiping will supply nuclear-wartipped rockets rock-ets to Castro's Cuba. The danger that Castro might use them in a moment of anti-U.S. anti-U.S. frenzy would become as great as the danger that Red China might launch a nuclear attack against its offshore adversary, adver-sary, Chiang Kai-shek, on Formosa. For-mosa. And who in Florida could sleep knowing Castro had the I lJems that we are all going V '?o bllearing a lot more about atomic'energy now that the Soviet So-viet Un"ion has redirected our attention to it by resuming nuclear nu-clear testing. In addition to some of the more obvious A-developments within the past few days following follow-ing the resumption of Soviet nuclear nu-clear testing, some of the more obscure, ominous, significant and promising aspects of atomic energy en-ergy have also been attracting Washington's attention the way they have not been since the dawn of the atomic age in 1945. Already, there are new political poli-tical and diplomatic problems The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and Central Intelligence Agency are now warning the White House against delaying too long in resuming a wide range of U.S. nuclear tests. They and an influential bipartisan congressional congres-sional bloc warn that the rapid resumption of Soviet A-weapons testing is aimed at refining its nuclear arsenal and winning a propaganda victory by arousing world opinion against further A-testing. Major U.S. A-tests would just be getting underway as the So viets are finishing theirs, so that Moscow could pretent to "bow to world opinion" to end its tests if the U.S. would also halt its A-test plans. The U.S. would then have to bear the burden of continuing its A-testng after Moscow courts world opinion, especially among the "neutrals," bv ending its own. A-bomb? It is also no secret to learn that the West is alarmed that French right wing extremists might yet use the French A-bomb as a last-ditch measure against the North African Nationalists. There have been heartening new developments in the peaceful peace-ful use of the atom in treating cancer and other disease. The Nuclear Ship Savannah is about to herald a new era in competitive competi-tive shipping. A special U.S. The U.S. Information Agency knows it would have a tough , time selling the world on a military mili-tary necessity for the U.S. to match the Soviets in resumed A-testing if Moscow's come to an end. z The Soviet resumption of A-tests and U.S. plans to follow suit, have already stimulated greater efforts on the part of the other major nations of the world to seek East-West disarmament disarm-ament agreement. The U.S. is finding tiself under tremendous new pressure to appease ap-pease the Soviets diplomatically to prevent Khrushchev from unleashing un-leashing his new "terror bombs." Canada, a major uranium producer, pro-ducer, is stepping up its efforts to revive East-West disarmament talks under United Nations auspices. aus-pices. The Canadian bargain position, po-sition, in pressuring the U.S. on nuclear testing, is growing for agency has completed a long list I of peaceful atomic detonations in its "Project Plowshare," which include possible A-blast-ing of a new Panama Canal in Nicaragua, deepening of harbors in Alaska, the exploration of underground oil reserves. The Atomic Energy Commission Commis-sion expects a major new breakthrough break-through soon in the quest to harness the H-bomb reaction for peacetime electrical power. several reasons. Cyrus Eaton, the billionaire Cleveland industrialist preaching preach-ing "coexistence" with Communism, Com-munism, has been investing heavily in Canadian uranium. Canadian-born Eaton is exercising exercis-ing a considerable influence on Canadian politicians to encourage encour-age a growth of "neutralism" in Canada. And uranium shipments to the U.S. have been falling off from the Congo, our principal supplier, sup-plier, ever since the growth of pro-Communism and chaos, so that we are more dependent than ever on Canadian ore. Great Britain and Italy have been putting strong new pressure pres-sure on the U.S. to accept a Soviet challenge to link the Berlin - German - European security se-curity problem to nuclear disarmament. dis-armament. West German Chancellor Adenauer had been instrumental in getting the U.S. to separate the nuclear arms problem from European security, so that German Ger-man "neutrality" could not be negotiated during the Berlin threat at the recent East-West disarmament talks at Geneva. Sweden's first atomic reactor, capable of producing 65,000 kilowatts, kilo-watts, is expected to be in operation, oper-ation, south of Stockholm, by December. Great Britain is offering of-fering to link its growing nuclear nu-clear power electrical system to meet West European needs. The U.S. expects a breakthrough break-through in developing A-pow-ered rockets for space travel, although Russia, too, is pressing development of an A-powered spaceship. Nuclear-powered spaceships may be only 2 years off. A new era of A-terror dominates dom-inates the atomic age, however. Nuclear rockets are becoming "conventional weapons." The U.S. says Russia plans a whole series of early tests to hit the moon with a nuclear warhead. Moscow already plans to detonate deton-ate a nuclear warhead rocket as it orbits the unseen rear of the moon. Theoretical physicists are already at work on a "cosmic bomb" trillions of times more deadly than a neutron bomb. Moscow's new A-terorism appears ap-pears only the beginning of worse to come. |