U. S. Ahead Of
World In
Atomic Weapons
WASHING TON, <&) — The
United States still holds a vast
lead over Russia in the field of
atomic weapons and in all proba
bility will neve lose it, top Ameri
can officials said Saturday.
‘They’ll never catch up with
us,” said one high security official
in the wake of President Truman’s
disclosure Friday that there has
been an atomic explosion in Rus
sia.
While it was calmly worded, the
President’s statement itself ex
ploded throughout the Western
World with terrific impact.
It brought urgent—and hopeful
—new demands from lawmarkers,
scientists, diplomats and others
for effective international atom
controls—a demand which merely
echoed Mr. Truman’s own words.
It caused a general withering of
Congressional opposition to shar
ing American atomic secrets with
Britain and Canada.
And it raised questions enough
to keep the world guessing for
months.
How did the news reach this
country? One official who knew
said “hundreds of persons” and
numerous agencies were involved.
Another said it was a miracle of
intelligence.”
But whether it involved spies,
ground equipment, or airborne ra
diation-detecting instruments—or
all three—no one would say foi
sure.
Was it definitely an atomic
bomb, or just an accidental explo
sion? A bomb, absolutely, experts
said—and, apparently, the Soviet’s
first successful one.
But when and where the explo
sion occurred, how efficient the
Russian bomb may be, and what
effect it might have on future re
lations between the East and the
West—those questions and dozens
of others went unanswered except
for hints and guesses.
The President said the explo
sion occurred ‘"in recent weeks.”
Scientists in Sweden reported
nicking up an earth tremon Sept.
14 which they said might have
been an a-bomb blast in Siberia.
But the New York Daily News said
in a Rome dispatch that western
American airfields in Alaska
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which would place the Northwest i
Pacific coast and possibly cities in |
the north central area within j
reach of two-way missions.
It is reasonable to assume this
recasting of the picture may place
a new premium on Far North Po
lar defenses, including a speedup
in building an aircraft warning
system across the Arctic perimeter
of the North American continent.
For the moment, there seems to
be no plans to build up manpower
in the Alaskan defenses—if Secre
tary of Defense Johnson’s answer
to a Washington reporter’s ques
tion was intended to apply to
Alaska. When asked if the Rus
sian atomic explosion report
would bring a change in the dis
position of U. S. forces anywhere,
Johnson replied with a one-wordi
negative.
At this big infantry training j
center and home of the Third In
fantry Division, officers apparent
ly knew only what they read in
the newspapers. Whatever top
level decisions are being made in
Washington are not reflected here
where it is the business to train
soldiers and not to make strategic
decisions.
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officials have known • about the
Russian bomb for at least nine
weeks.
An American official hinted
that Mr. Truman knew about it
for several days, at least.
Also from Rome, Pietro Nenni,
pro-communist leader of the Ital
j ian Socialist party, said the bomb
was touched off in eastern Siberia.
Nenni was just back from a trip
to Moscow.
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