NUCLEAR BALANCE
Scientist’s View
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SYDNEY, August 26.
The British atomic scientist, Lord Penney, says he cannot see any “practicable possibility” of an upset in the balance between the nuclear systems of the United States and Russia. “Technical innovation will continue, but I can see no prospect of either side ever having a defence system guaranteed to be perfect, or nearly perfect, against the other,” Lord Penney, who is the rector of the Imperial College of Science, London, said in a Sydney radio programme last night “Nuclear weapons have given the world a period of stability to counteract another world war, and my personal opinion is that this stab ility will fast for a considerable time,” he said. It seemed certain, he added, that the United States, Russia and China would not abandon their nuclear weapon systems, even though some progress had been made with the International Control of Atomic Energy.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31768, 27 August 1968, Page 17
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