NUCLEAR WAR WARNING

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31333, 1 April 1967, Page 13

NUCLEAR WAR WARNING

<NZ. Press Association—Copyright) LOS ANGELES, March 31. The world is only a “slip of the switch” from nuclear devastation, especially at the hands of smaller nations, the British Nobel prize-winner, Sir John Cockcroft, said yesterday.

Be tol da World Affairs Council luncheon that increasing nuclear development places the entire world in peril because control systems are not being used properly. “The United States, Britain and Russia are the only countries employing sophisticated control systems,” he said. Small nations might use nuclear weapons against one another, touching off a chain reaction of retaliation that could spread to all countries,

Sir John Cockroft, a physicist, added.

The only solution, he said, is for the “Big Three” to share their knowledge of nuclear fail-safe type checks with developing nations. He said any opposition to this exchange would be “purely bureaucratic.”