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Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest is Dr. Edward Teller, noted nuclear physicist and a chief architect of the H-bomb...
...Curtis E. LeMay, Power's predecessor as commander of SAC, demurred to any degree: "I would think that I would have been against it." Among the things bothering LeMay: lack of an effective U.S. anti-ballistic missile, failure of the U.S. to develop a 50-to-100-megaton bomb. Said LeMay, whose blue uniform set him apart from his three khaki-clad colleagues: "There are net disadvantages from the military standpoint." Still, since the treaty had been initialed, LeMay was now willing to go along...
...Clay Pigeon. When the chiefs stepped down, it was the scientists' turn. Dr. Edward H. Teller, one of the developers of the hydrogen bomb and strong advocate of intensive atmospheric test ing, told the Senate that "the signing was a mistake. If you ratify the treaty, you will have committed an enormously greater mistake." Teller's chief objection was that the U.S. would be un able to perfect an anti-ballistic missile. Though he admits that a workable system would probably cost an astronomic $50 billion, he declared: "Missile defense may make the difference between our national survival...
...born in Great Neck, N.Y. He fell in love with the air at 20, after a spin in a Flying Jenny, skipped college to attend flying school, and won his second lieutenant's bars in 1929. A bomber man from the first, he was assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing at Virginia's Langley Field. During World War II he flew B-24s over North Africa and Italy, commanded a Guam-based B-29 wing that made the first large-scale fire-bomb raid over Tokyo. Later, he helped plot the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...rest of the tactical atomic wallop comes in comparatively "little" packages. Yet many of these nuclear runts can carry up to a 100-kiloton load-which is five times the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. These include the Army's 75-mile Sergeant (now replacing the aging Corporal), Lacrosse (for pinpoint blasting of pillboxes, bunkers, etc. less than 20 miles away), the 12-mile Honest John and the 10-mile Little John, the 1,200-yard Davy Crockett (smallest of all the nuclear weapons, it can be hauled about on a Jeep, is designed to blast such...