RADAR AND ATOMIC WEAPONS

Evening Star, Issue 25565, 18 August 1945, Page 7

RADAR AND ATOMIC WEAPONS

GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE (Rec. 8 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 17. # There is an answer to the atomio bomb—a new type of shell carrying ( an atom-splitting warhead propelled by .atomic energy and guided by radar. While the new bomb was ending the Far Eastern war British scientists were already quietly producing this' answer, says the ' Dady Mail's aviation correspondent. " This means a fight between the atomic'rocket and the atomic-shell," he writes. "In this new ack-ack radar will give an instant warning of the atomic rocket as soon as it is launched. The approach of 3,000 miles an hour V-2's was, being plotted by radar jusis before : the, bombardment ceased. Scientists have since continued work on the counter measures which wer« about to be tested then.

"Radar will provide a beam which, automatically making contact and sticking to the atomicrocket, will guide to it, even faster, an atomic shell propelled hy atomic energy. Scientists predict that the almighty explosion will be high, enough above the earth to obviate surface damage or injury. Long-range bombardment henceforth will be by atomic rocket —a rocket directed by atomic energy bearing an atom-splitting warhead and guided to its target by a radar beam. Atomic rockets could be fully controlled- for thousands of miles. .