H-Bomb Specialist Says 90% of
U.S. People Can Survive Nuclear War
(Editor’s Note: By taking the
necessary measures now, a
world-famous nuclear scientist
says, the nation can either
avoid atomic war or win it if it
comes. Dr. Edward Teller be
lieves 90 per cent of the U. S.
population could survive the
holocaust. This is the first of
three articles on the subject.)
By Alton Blakesleo
Associated Press Science Writer
NEW YORK UT> — The date is
some dreadful tomorrow.
The holocaust of nuclear war
suddenly sweeps the United
States.
But 90 per cent of Americans
could actually survive, declares
Dr. Edward Teller of H-Bomb
fame.
And in three to four years, they
could rebuild desolated industries,
cities, schools, homes. Democratic
institutions would function again.
Lingering radiation would be
a problem, but not insuperable,
he says. The human race would
not perish. Nor would future gen
erations be destined to be born
misshapen monsters.
Dr. Teller is convinced this
country and other nations could
survive despite the “doomsday”
fear which grips and paralyzes
millions of people in the face of
nuclear war.
Indeed, he regards this attitude
and lack of defense as a tempta
tion for a well-prepared nation to
launch thermonuclear war.
It is an invitation to panic and
wholesale, needless loss of life if
bombs ever fall, says the famous
physicist of the Lawrence Radia
tion Laboratory of the University
of California.
Three steps could create the
defease for insurance against war,
or for national survival if it comes
Dr. Teller said in an interview
challenging many general con
ceptions:
1. Building skelters against fall
out and against the blast and fire
from nuclear bombs.
2. Stockpiling surplus food, ma
chinery, machine tools, generators,
building materials — the essen
tials to generate power, start fac
tories, build more machines, trans
port people and goods, and assure
communications.
3. Planning oragnized efforts to
carry people through the terrible
early days, and the hard, demand
ing, cooperative labor to rebuild
modern civilization.
It would cost billions of dol
lars, perhaps an average of $4
billions for some years, Dr. Teller
says.
“A first step could be simply
to distribute our surplus foods to
strategic places throughout the
country. This could be done in
half a year.
“I believe the Russians will be
more likely to attack if we are
not prepared.”
Dr. Teller warns the time is
short.
Soviet resumption of nuclear
testing is frightening, he says. For
it could mean the Soviets have
been testing new weapons secret
ly underground in the past two
or three years, and have decided
to make open tests simply to
answer final questions.
The Soviets knew open testing
would force or irritate the United
States into more testing, and
arouse adverse opinion.
But an edge won through sec
ret testing could mean “they are
| so far ahead in weaponry they
don’t care what we do.”
Dr. Teller says “if we don’t
prepare, 100 million Americans
could die in the first days of an
all-out war. Thirty to forty mil
lions more could die from starva
tion and disease. The United
States would cease to exist.
“But I firmly believe SO per
cent of our .population could be
saved. It means 20 million would
die, and this is terrible to con
template. But why not try to
give 90 per cent a decent chance
for survival?"
Nuclear war “would be one
of the most horrible things im
aginable, and everything should
be done to prevent it.”
But, he adds, he is dismayed
by “those who say that a nuclear
war necessarily means the end
of everything.”
“The fear of radiation is much
greater than it deserves to toe. It
is not true that radiation, even
from an all-out war, would
destroy all forms of life.
“And it is simply not true that
if war came, everything .s hope
less.
“We can prepare.”
Next: Shelters, stockpiles and
civil defense.
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I Egan Does Not
Foresee Chance of
Lowering Taxes
JUNEAU UP) — Gov. Egan said
yesterday he does not foresee a
chance that taxes will be lower
ed — or raised — during the
1962 session of the Legislature.
Egan made the comment after
he was asked at his regular Thurs
day morning news conference if
heavy revenue collections during
July and August might have some
eventual bearing on the state’s
tax rate.
The Governor said that while
tax collections during the two
months were substantially above
collections during the same two
months a year ago, they paral
leled projections for fiscal 1962.
As he has said many times in
the past, Egan termed the next
two or three years as a critical
period in Alaska’s history from
a financial standpoint.
“The end of the transitional
period is g)ing to pose tremen
dous problems for the state, re
gardless of our income from land
sales and mineral leases,” Egan
said.
“It Is going to be a major prob
lem for whoever occupies the Gov
ernor’s office.”
On another subject, Egan said
he had received ihe recommenda
tions of the Reapportionment Ad
visory Committee on reapportion
ment of the House of Representa
tives Wednesday.
The Governor said he would
make the committee’s recom
mendations public as soon as he
had a chance to study them
thoroughly.'
U of A Scientist
To Be Reunited
With Japanese Bride
KYOTO, Japan UP — A Uni
versity of Colorado geophysicist
is helping reunite a young Ja
panese bride with her scientist
husband in Alaska.
Dr. Sydney Chapman, here for
an international conference on
cosmic rays, will return to his
home at Bouder, Colo., later this
month with Mrs. Shun-Ichi Aka
sofu, 19.
Her husband, a scientist at the
Geophysical Institute of Alaska
University, Fairbanks, plans to
join her in Boulder and take her
back to Fairbanks.
Akasofu, a geophysicist who
has engaged in research pojects
with Dr. Chapman, went to Alas
ka in 1997 and was married this
year by proxy.
His wife said he wanted to be
there for the wedding hut pass
port procedures would have pre
vented hi*n from returning to
Alaska immediately and the sci
entist . did not want to interrupt
his research.
Dr. Chapman offered to bring
hack the young bride.
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Bill Introduced for
Incentive Payments
For Mining of Gold
WASHINGTON UR — Incentive
payments would be made by the
government for mining gold un
der a bill introduced in Congress
yesterday by Rep. A1 Ullman,
(D-Ore.).
Under the bill, the payments
plan would become effective
whenever government gold re
serve holdings fall below $23 bil
lion. Holdings now total $17.6
billion.
The aim of the payments would
be to stimulate the discovery and
production of gold in the United
States. A major difference be
tween Ullman’s bill and other
proposed incentive systems is that
his measure calls for a graduated
scale of payments.
The top category of payments
would apply to new mines and
mines which have not been able
to operate economically under the
existing fixed price for gold.
“The aim of my proposal,” said
Ullman, “is to bring new sources
of gold into production and the
graduated scale of incentive pay
ments is designed to do that job
on a selective basis. It will be
particularly helpful to the small
miner and prospector."
He said that while the Ameri
can balance of payments situa
tion has substantially improved
in recent months “our gold stock
is still a long way from being
as large as it should be to assure
continued confidence in the dol
lar.”
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Truman Tells Legionaires
One Proposed Resolution
Could Lead to War
DENVER, Colo. IP — Former
President Harry Truman told the
American Legion ^convention~ yes
terday its resolution calling for
liberation of peoples behind the
Iron Curtain would lead to war
if it became U. S. policy.
In a question-and-answer ses
sion at the final convention meet
ing, Truman said: “I don’t know
what you know about the policy
of containment, but I started it.
If you want to go to war, do
what you’re crying about. That’s
the way to start it.”
The Legionaires, in one of some
500 resolutions adopted, called for
abandonment of efforts to con
tain international Communism. It
proposed instead the liberation
of captive peoples by any means,
including military.
Charles L, Bacon, of Kansas
City, Mo., became the National
Commander of the 2,600,000-mem
ber veterans organization and
pledged to lead it in an attack
on Communism.
“If we fail to maintain our
position in the forefront of an all
out attack on Communism, then
I say to you that all of the sacri
fices of the past will be mean
ingless and future generations
could well name us as their be
trayers,” Bacon said as he be
came the Legion’s 45th Com
mander.
Bacon, 51, a lawyer, was elected
by acclamation at the closing ses
sion of the convention. During
World War II he was a Naval of
ficer. He succeeds William R.
Burke of Long Beach, Calif.
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