Answer To Atomic Bomb

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23282, 18 August 1945, Page 5

Answer To Atomic Bomb

Radar-Guided Rocket

(11.55 n.m.) . LONDON. Aug. 17. There is an answer to the atomic bomb—a new type of shell carrying an atomsplitting warhead, propelled by atomic energy and guided by radar.

While the new bomb is ending the Far Eastern war, British scientists are already quietly producing this answer, says the aviation correspondent of the “Daily Mail.”

“This means a fight between the atomic rocket and the atomic shell, the correspondent added. In this new ack ack radar will give an instant warning of the atomic rocket as soon as it is launched, the approach of the 3000 miles an hour V2's being plotted by radar just before the bombardment ceased. Scientists have since continued to work on counter measures, which were about to be tested then.

Radar will provide a beam which, automatically contacting and sticking to the atomic rocket, will guide to it an even faster atomic shell propelled by atomic energy. Scientists predict that the almighty explosion will be high enough above the earth to obviate surface damage or injury’. Longrange bombardment henceforth will be by the 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.