Evening star., 1961-01-30
ATOMIC
Continued Ernrn Z

! ATOMIC
} Continued From First Pag'
on o weapons stockpile that
Is currently adequate.
}. "Nuclear weapons develop.
ment Is not a static science .
the report pointed out. "Oul
weapons scientists are con-
vinced that further nuclear
testing would achieve major
advances In weapons design.
The Acc opposed indiscrimi-
nate weapons which would re-
suit In future fallout dangers.
Future tests, II any, (should)
be conducted underground, or
in space beyond the earth's
atmosphere. in such a way as
not to cause fallout,' the report
said.
Such testing may be going
on at the present time in the
Soviet Union, the report indi-
Gated.
Possibilities Cited
"It is technically possible at
present to conduct nuclear
tests underground In q clan
destine manner. with little or
no possibility Of detection and
Identification" it said. Meth
DDS also could be developed for
conducting tests In outer space
TESTS that would be extremely
difficult to detect and identify.
Improved methods Of de-
tecting and verifying nuclear
explosions /, are necessary II
an international agreement Is
to be adequately monitored."
The report stated fatty that
whatever clandestine testing
may be going on is not Of this
country's doing. Testing Of nu-
clear weapons has been sus-
pended by the United States
for more than two years." 1t
said. The report added:
THE military advantages to
be gained from clandestine nu-
clear testing are great. and the
probabilities Of detecting and
Identifying clandestine tests are
very small. This will be the free
worlds situation as long as
there Is an unpoliced de facto
moratorium on nuclear weap-
ons testing"
Detection Questioned
A treaty with anti.cheating
safeguards might be O signifi-
cant step toward better inter-
national relations" the COM
missioners said
1T would be quite another
matter. however, to continue
indefinitely a self-imposed mo-
ratorium on the testing of nu-
clear weapons while the means
Of detecting violations does not
exist the reports foreword
concluded.
The body Of the 544-page an.
nual report dealt with develop.
mentS in the atomic field dur
ing 1860. Highlights included: {:
Weapons test facilities. Eni-
wetok Proving Ground. made
available last year to the De-
fense Department for missile
work, is on a standby basis
for Acc use If needed. The Ne
vada Test Site is on Standby
readiness" status for a quick
resumption Of tests If such are
ordered.
Power reactOr technology,
Two major power plants using
atomic energy went on the line
in 1860. and by the end Of 1862
installed nuclear capacity will
exceed l million kilowatts. A
footnote to the power reactor
section mentioned the worst
accident in the history oi
atomic electricity, a reactor
runaway in Idaho which killed
three men. Because the acci-
dent happened January 3, 1861
1t was not embodied in the
1860 report except in footnote
form.
Naval reactors. Fourteen
atomic submarines are now ir
operation, and a total of As
naval vessels has been author
izec by Congress.
Aircraft and rocket propul.
sion. Tory II-A, a test reactol
for the Aces flight program
achieved critically December 8
and a more advanced engine
Tory II-C. Is scheduled for test.
ing in Nevada in the future.
High-energy physics. Tht
new Alternating Gradient Syn.
chrotron. an atom smasher al
Brookhaven, L. l., has achieved
energies close to 80 billion elec.
! tron volts. Studies pointed al
construction Of a 2-mile lineal
accelerator at Stanford Uni.
versity In California are under
way.
Fallout data. French atomi,
tests in the Sahara Desert hav,
: : added about one-tenth to one
! fifth Of / per cent to the fall,
,, out burden Of the atmosphere
4 Fallout of cesium-137 is still
accumulating slowly and so
) apparently, is strontium-90 fall
out. In wheat flour-an i'm
portant article of diet-stron
1 tium-90 appears highest II
bran and lowest In patent flour
x In human bone, strontium- 81
o concentrations continued to in