NUCLEAR ATTACK
Warning By Telescope (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 21. The Jodrell Bank radio telescope at Cheshire is being modified to give Britain early warning of nuclear rocket attack, the “Daily Express” science writer, Chapman Pincher, reported today. Pincher said that modifications to step up the telescope’s performance, so as to pick up an incoming enemy H-bomb rocket up to 2000 miles away, were now under way. They would be finished some time next month. The telescope would be Britain's main warning system for at least a year, Pincher said Its 200 ft bowl would be linked through electronic brains with Bomber Command stations, and civil warning systems.
It would also be linked with the two big United States warning stations now operating at Thule. Greenland, and Clear, Alaska. The system would give the Royal Air Force the fourminute warning it needed to get its bombers off the ground for retaliatory attack, said Pincher. It would give the United States at least 15 minutes’ warning, he said.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29626, 23 September 1961, Page 5
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