SOVIET ROCKETS
100-Megaton Warheads <N ZPJt.-Reuter— Copyright) MOSCOW, Feb. 20. A senior Soviet rocket commander, interviewed in the Defence Ministry organ, “Red Star,” today, said Soviet rockets were armed with 100-megaton warheads, compared with the seven-megaton warheads of American Titan rockets.
The First Deputy Com-mander-In-Chief of Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces, Colonel General Tolubko, said Western appraisers of the East-West rocket balance deliberately ignored the relative power of warheads "otherwise their conjectures about American rocket superiority would burst like a soap bubble.” When one realised that American Titan rockets had warheads of seven megatons, while Soviet rockets carried warheads “reaching a power of 100 million tons of T.N.T
. . . commentaries are superfluous,” he said. The general said that "every notion brings a counter-action.” and while America still had no means of anti-rocket defence, “in spite of forced labour in this sphere.” the Soviet Union ‘‘has such means already."
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30062, 21 February 1963, Page 15
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