MISSILE DEFENCE
Progress By Scientists
(N.Z.P A.-Reuter— Copurtght) ... , LONDON. April 30. British, American and Canadian scientists have made striking progress in devising an anti-missile system capable of destroying or diverting a ballistic rocket in flight, says the “Sunday Express.”
They now could build an electronic computer which would work fast enough for a defence rocket to be directed at an enemy missile before that missile re-entered the earth’s atmosphere. Defence chiefs now knew that a system of anti-missile defence was definitely a possibility.
There still was an enormous gap between destroying a single rocket and a system capable of shooting down any number of rockets launched from widely separated sites—and bridging the gap would be astronomically expensive.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29502, 2 May 1961, Page 6
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