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Show Race For New Weapons What will the next war involve in the way of new weapons of destruction? No answer can be given, and there is every reason to use caution when reading the predictions pre-dictions of so-called experts, who glibly tell us that nations will be destroyed almost instantane- ously. At the same time, there is a feverish race t develop new weapons. The development of atomic missies engages the scientists sci-entists of this country, and, we presume, of other nations. Recently, Col. S. B. Ritchie, acting-Chief of the Army's Research and Development Service, talked about guided missies, which could be fired from the United States and hit any part of the world within an hour. He did not predict such a weapon, but said we cannot discount "the possibility pos-sibility of launching from underground under-ground sites loads of atomic retribution re-tribution for delivery in an hour on any enemy in any part of the globe." The Colonel also said that the Army has another kind of weapon weap-on in mind, a missile which j could be fired on the American coast at an approaching ship and hit it hundreds of miles at sea. The missile will have to direct di-rect itself for hundreds of miles and also travel so fast and so high that ships will have no defense de-fense against it. Summing up the Army's thinking, think-ing, the Colonel said that present contracts make the "Buck Rogers myth a reality." |