Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-27
BY ROBERT X. WALSH
Star star Writer

OF an Underseas Warfare Ad-
visory Panel to the Joint
Atomic Energy Committees
Subcommittee on Military APP
plications.
Calls Programs Inadequate
The grim report cited what
1t called dangerously made
quate programs, facilities and
finances for submarine develop
ment, construction and opera
tions. It gave an equally gloomy
analysis of current Russian
submarine strength and the
"capability if they so desire to
build a larger nuclear submarine
feet by the mid-1960s."
The six-member panel of
scientists and educators said
the United States can keep its
current lead in the nuclear sub
marine field only if it greatly
steps up offensive and defen-
sive construction programs and
does much more for research
and development.
Senator Jackson, chairman of
the subcommittee that received
the report last June, was in
strumental in persuading the
full committee to publish the
report except for a few Sec
tions tightly classified for ma
tional security reasons.
THE United States and the
free world today face a formi-
dable threat from large num-
Der of Soviet submarines, many
Of which are capable of launch
ing missiles with nuclear war
heads" he stated, adding:
Defense against this threat
in great part will be dependent
upon an adequate number of
United States nuclear powered
attack submarines, coupled with
the deterrent effect of an ade-
quate number of PolariS missile
carrying nuclear submarines
which, in turn, will necesSitate
an adequate knowledge of
Oceanography.
1.-THE United States is for
tunate that through the efforts
Of the Naval Reactors Branch
of the Atomic Energy Commits
sion and the Bureau of Ships,
United States Navy, this coun-
try leads the world today in
the development and operation
of nuclear submarines. 1t is
imperative that such leadership
must not falter nor be per-
mitted to lag through ILL
advised and dangerous budget
limitations"
MemDerS OF faneI
The advisory panel was part
of a larger group of experts
selected by Senator jackson.
One of the members of the
larger group was Gordon Dean.
former Atomic Energy Com
mission chairman, who was
killed recently in a plane crash.
Members of the panel APP
pointed last March were: DR..
Harvey Brooks, Harvard Uni
versity dean of engineering and
applied physics; DR.. Ivan A.
Getting, vice president in
charge of engineering and re-
search for Raytheon Manufac-
turing Co.; DR.. Gaylord P.
Harnwell, president of the Uni
verSity of Pennsylvania; Ken
meth Mansfield, former special
projects manager for the Joint
Atomic Energy Committee: DR.
Oskar Morgenstern, Princeton
University economics professor;
and DR.. Roger Revelle, director
OF the ScrippS Institute of
Oceanography.
They prepared the report be-
fore the nuclear submarines
Nautilus and Skate went un-
der the North Pole ice cap
They nevertheless made clear
that far more must be done de-
spite this country'S achieve
ments in the building of a nu-
clear navy.
Although the panel found
much to criticize, it noted i'm
portant accomplishments and
paid particular tribute to the
outstanding success" of the
naval reactors program headed
by Rear Admiral Hyman G
Rickover.
1t also commended the top
priority development of the Pc.
lariS. It explained that this
weapons system combines 1.-THE
destructive power of nuclear
warheads and the hypersoniC
speed of ballistic delivery We.
hicles with the endurance anC
stealth of nuclear-propelleC
submerged launching plat
forms"
But it complained that de-
velopment for detection anC
destruction of enemy subma.
rines has been supported ION q
much more modest scale thar
other national defense activi.
ties such as air defense"
I'VE regard it as likely" thu
panel declared. that tn,
Soviets soon can have tn
capability of building many
more nuclear submarines thai
we now plan to construct
We believe that our preSen
and planned goals for the con
struction of attack submarine
are too small"
Emphasizing at several point
in the report the Soviet threa
and the slow pace of Unite
States submarine programmine
the panel summed up:
THE Soviets could mount
devastating nuclear warhea
attack from the sea against tn
United States early in tn
1960s. Our presently exlstin
defensive system could not Sto
such missile attack.