Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15
Russians Will Have
1.5OO-MiIe Missile
In SO, Jackson Says
BY EARL H. VOSS


Washington's global strategists
fear 1856 is going to be an appall-
ingly critical year in the cold war.
The election campaign will add
to the peril. Democrats, being out
of power. are more likely to speak
of the dangers they see. But since
they obviously stand to gain
politically by painting gloomy
picture, their words will lose some
of their force.
Republicans, on the other hand,
will be more inclined to talk about
rosy prospects for peace and
prosperity.
The public. which should know
about the critical danger, is likely
to wind up grandly confused. And
befuddlement is hardly the thing
to arouse the country to the SUI
preme efforts the times seem to
demand.
The Nightmare
Nightmares are admittedly old
fashioned. But a very modern
young Senator in the Democratic
Party is having almost nightly
visitations from nonpartisan
nightmare of frightening proper
lions. The Senator is 43-year-old
Henry M. Jackson Of Washington,
whose boyish features and tender
years hide Is seasons OF experience
on Capitol Hill, most Of it watch
logging military affairs. Here Is
the scene which haunts him:
At a missile-launching site just
outside Moscow, Soviet Defense
Minister Georgi Zhukov has as
sembled military attaches Of the Is
North Atlantic treaty powers. In
side the concrete blockhouSe with
the heavily reinforced windows.
President Eisenhower's "old
friend" explains that he is about to
give the command to fire the worlds
first 1.500-mile ballistic missile.
To reassure the world that the
Kremlin's intentions are entirely
peaceful, the missile carries only a
conventional explosive shell, he
says. although it is capable OF TAX
ing both fission and fusion bombs.
To prove to the world. and particu-
larry to the NATO powers. that the
United States traditional monopoly
of industrial and chronological
supremacy has been permanently
shattered. Marshal Zhukov an
nounces that he has thrown open
this test to the gaze Of the whole
world.
RIGHT Before Their Eyes
The attaches will be allowed to
watch the launching and then fol-
low the missile by radars strung
out in tandem south Of Moscow.
These will track the warhead on its
10 or is minute fight until 1t ex-
plodes in q desolate area near fash
kent, about $500 miles away. At the
Tashkent end, he reminds his
listeners. each Of the military at
taches has been allowed to station
an assistant. to verify the explosion.
Marshal Zhukov also calls the at
taches' attention 10 the dramati-
cally Illuminated map OF Eurasia
on the blockhouse wall. It shows
the reach of this marvellous missile.
which the Marshal claims can carry
thermometer warheads.
A brilliant red line, 1900 miles
outside the vast perimeter Of the
Soviet land mass, encircles all OF
Western Europe. from Iceland and
Norway around England. France
and Germany, italy, Greece ana
around Turkey. The hideous. jag
ged line even includes North Africa,
Egypt. the Suez Canal. In fact all
the Middle East. It girdles PAX
istan, India, Burma. Southeast
Asia, Indonesia. the Philippines.
Formosa, Okinawa. Korea and all
Japan.
From bases in eastern Siberia.
even Alaska and the northwestern
end Of the defense early warning
DEw) line Of radar across north
ern Canada are vulnerable.
By Submarine, Too
With q significant gesture toward
the vast Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
approaches to the United States.
Marshal zhukov comments point
edly that the new l,500-mile mis-
sile is being adapted for launching
from submarines.
Premier Nikolai Bulganin Is send
ing out invitations. Marshal Zhukov
announces, to the foreign ministers
Of the is NATo nations and to the
opposite numbers among the War
saw pact powers for an extremely
important conference to be held IN
Moscow In 80 days.
Marshal Bulganin proposes that
there be no agenda. But he indi-
Gates that he will propose forma-
ton Of q pan-European defense
community such rs the Soviet
Union has been advocating ever
since West Germany defled Mos
COW and joined the North Atlantic
community.
Obviously, the grand power play
to neutralize all free Eurasia has
begun. Join us. say the Reds, or
risk nuclear doom.
The worst part of this night
mare is that Senator jackson sees
nothing fantastic in 1t. Yet he
knows it sounds incredible to al
most all the people in the United
States, including his own constitu-
ents.
Knows the Story
But he also has had access to
enough Of this country's top in
telligence to know 1t could happen.
He sits on the Senate Armed Serv-
ices Committee and the Joint
Atomic Energy Committee. He was
one of the five members Of the
latter group who pushed hesitat-
ing executive department into the
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