AMERICAN ATOMIC WEAPONS

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26510, 27 August 1951, Page 7

AMERICAN ATOMIC WEAPONS

Officials Expect Big Advances (Rec. Z 8.30 r *pV) MOCiatiOn^OPUr ‘ 9htJ The Unh J^ N t ClS 9°’ August 25. .? tates Air Force was planning for the use of new atomic in^nn 118 whi< ? tremendous strikan/? w hich could be brought on an enemy's ground 7?< ce^ the Secretary of the Air Force Thomas Finletter) said to-day, in an address to an Air Force Associatl °" c ° nve ntion in Los Angeles, we L°l° .much to hope that a ? le to u assu re our EuroSJJ? al “® s of much greater striking our pa , r t man we hoped for, and even make it unlikely that tic? I>X a^ ck ° n / he North Atlantice Treaty Organisation forces on the

Continent of Europe would have a h °P a °£ success,” Mr Finletter said. „Thf Secretary of the Navy (Mr Dan cZT bal U said tO -day that the United States Navy would have an atomicpowered submarine in two years. It would represent a terrific advance in modern warfare.