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Gruenther confronted the 15-nation NATO council with the choice. If they were unwilling to supply more men to fight, they would have to accept the atom. The stern logic of numbers prevailed over the cold horrors of the new science. In December 1954 the NATO council approved the new strategy...
...NATO council meeting in Lisbon in February 1952: 50 divisions, half of them active, by the end of 1952, increasing to 70 the next year, to 97 by the end of 1954. Three years later, Lord Ismay admitted: "The Lisbon goals are as dead as a dodo." * All atomic weapons would not only be U.S. made, but also U.S. triggered. By act of Congress, no other nation is allowed in on U.S. atomic weapons. Gruenther would like to change this out-of-date provision (which irritates allies and complicates procedures) so that Canada and Britain, the other two important...
...report punctured such dreams as the atomic automobile (it would weigh 100,000 Ibs.), the atomic airliner (shielding passengers would add too much weight) and the atomic locomotive (no better than a diesel). But in the field of industrial application, the atom's prospects seemed almost limitless. Almost every major U.S. tobacco company, the report stated, already uses a radioisotope gauge to check cigarette quality, and at least 350 companies use radioisotopes to look for flaws in welded joints and metal castings. By investing $1,000,000 yearly in radioisotopes, U.S. industry is saving $100 million yearly in production...
...Atomic Defense. So far in warfare, every new weapon has brought forth a counter-weapon. Missilemen suspect-they even hope-that this will happen again. Their best hope is in atom-armed birds, whose fireballs may be more de-tructive in space than in the atmosphere. Some believe that they can even destroy an ICBM striking at 16,000 m.p.h. Such missiles can be tracked by their heat and ionized trails, and their trajectories determined. The "reaction time" will be frighteningly short-only a few minutes...
...Chairman Lewis L. Strauss announced last week that nuclear tests to be held in the Pacific next spring will "involve less powerful weapons than the largest used in the 1954 tests." Also announced: the series "will be the further development of defense against nuclear attack." This probably means that atomic explosives or atom-armed missiles will be tried against airplanes high in the sky. It will partially meet military complaints that the AEC tests "nuclear devices" rather than practical "weapons systems...