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Last week the U.S. Navy threw a new and disturbing factor into Russian calculations with the announcement that some time this year California's Mare Island Navy Yard will begin construction of the world's first atom-powered, guided missile submarine. Roughly the same size as the original atom-powered Nautilus (320 ft. long, 3,180 tons displacement), and possessed of the same cruising range,* the still unnamed SSGN 587 will be capable of firing a variety of guided missiles, including the 1,500-mile "intermediate" range missile, which the U.S. hopes to have well before SSGN...
...Soviet navy (which apparently still has no atom subs) SSGN 587 was only the latest of a series of unpleasant undersea developments. Fortnight ago the Mare Island yards began work on Sargo, the U.S. Navy's fifth nuclear-powered submarine, and the first to be built on the West Coast. Shorter (257 ft.) and lighter (2,300 tons displacement) than Nautilus, Sargo will combine Nautilus' endurance with greater speed and maneuverability, and when she is commissioned in 1958, she should be the world's most effective submarine. Sargo's pre-eminence promises to be short-lived...
...Project, Achieve, Project." Since the next revolutionary change in power plants may come from the atom, Sporn has boned up on the problem, is one of the top U.S. authorities on industrial uses of atomic energy. He went to Geneva as a member of the U.S. delegation to the atoms-for-peace conference last summer, is president of Nuclear Power Group, Inc., a utility-backed atomic research organization that is contributing $15 million in research and development to Commonwealth Edison's 180,000-kw. reactor outside Chicago. Says he: "The power industry is in a terrifically dynamic phase...
...President's move, decided upon at Gettysburg weeks ago, was announced right on the heels of Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin's bombastic boast that the Soviet Union now leads the world in the peaceful use of atomic energy. But its real significance lay in reaffirming the humanitarian position taken by the U.S. as a matter of principle long before the Russians knew how to split an atom. Said the President: "This action demonstrates the confidence of the United States in the possibilities of developing nuclear power for civilian uses. It is an earnest of our faith that...
...LONG NIGHT, by Martin Caldin (242 pp.; Dodd, Mead; $3), drops a fictional atom bomb on a U.S. industrial town and morbidly watches the gory disaster work itself out. World War III comes to Harrington, U.S.A. with a touch of abracadabra-jabber at the air defense control towers: "Three. Multimotor. Low. One minute. Alpha Quebec Two Four Green . . ." This means enemy bombers. Author Caidin, a science writer, observes the beginning of the cataclysm through the little eyes of Henry Thompson, a jelly-spined civil defense map plotter who is quivering in his movie seat when the warning sirens sound...