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H-Bomb Will Not Destroy Mankind, Teller Asserts
"And we must prepare to defend ourselves by technical means and by obtaining the cooperation of all free nations because we could not expect Russia to cooperate.
WACO, Tex. — (UPI) — Edward Teller, the man called "father of the H-bomb," said the idea that an all-out nuclear war will wipe mankind off the face of the earth is "complete nonsense."
He also warned the United States must win the space race with Russia to preserve and defend freedom in space. If we lose, he said Russia may declare space a Soviet province and shoot down our satellites.
"We should get together and organize as a free world to preserve freedom of space by the gentlest means possible—but by any means necessary," he said.
"IT IS NOW as important to defend the freedom of space as it once was to insist on freedom of the oceans." Teller said. "If the Russians shoot down our satellites, we should be ready to defend ourselves.
TELLER, 53, IS A professor of physics at the University of California and associate director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
Teller said the fact that Russia exploded a 50-megaton bomb does not mean much in itself. He said it is a "piece of progress, but by no means the most important part."
He also charged that it proves Russia violated the three-year agreement on atomic experiments by conducting nuclear tests because it would have required as much as a year to get ready for the big blast.
Nixon Blasts JFK On China Stand
CORONADO, Calif. — (UPI) — Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon has lashed out at the Kennedy administration and predicted "that unless President Kennedy puts some backbone into Adlai Stevenson we are going to have Red China in the United Nations."
Nixon also called for the reappraisal of America's whole attitude towards Communism:
"The great danger is not war, but losing freedom without war. The United States must reappraise its whole attitude towards Communism. We should take the offensive and every time Khrushchev makes a demand we should make a demand to free part of the slave world."
Nixon accused Kennedy of talking "big on Cuba and Laos and now we are talking big on Berlin."
He said the "great lesson to learn from the first months of the Kennedy administration that we talk bigger than we are prepared to act."
Nixon made the remarks at a dinner during which he said that California's fallout shelter program was a shocking example of the weak and indecisive leadership of Democratic Gov. Edmund G. Brown.
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MORE IMPORTANT, he said, "It is possible they have tried out new principles developed in previous undetected experiments."
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Teller said these new principles made it "highly likely" the Soviets have developed an anti-missile missile.
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"Such a development is particularly dangerous for us because it deprives us of the power to retaliate and exposes us to blackmail." he said.
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UNDER THE CURRENT Civil Defense program, which he called "confused and useless," the physicist said, "one half or more" of the people in the United States would be killed.
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But should a nuclear war develop it by no means would destroy all mankind, he said. Teller urged increased spending for civil defense as an immediate answer.
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"We need to spend 10 per cent of the money on civil defense that we now spend on weapons and this program (then) could save 90 per
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cent of our population and let us stay in existence as a government," he said.
"Then we shouldn't retaliate until we are actually hit. We should fire in return not because we see weapons coming, but because we are attacked."
HE EXPLAINED he meant that we should build a system so the United States could survive a nuclear attack and "make no doubt about it" and then if the bombs or rockets did fall fire ours back in return.
He said "really reliable" weather forecasting is just around the corner and this will result in world wide weather modification techniques that should be established on an international cooperative basis.
Teller said the use of the Echo satellites has a "great potential" in extending worldwide communications. He said the time has come to "look not only for the technical, but the political means of making such international communications possible in the easing of tensions."
Rocky May Attend KU-Mizzou Game
New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller may come to the University of Kansas Nov. 25 for the KU-Missouri football game.
Gov. Rockefeller, a prospective 1964 Republican presidential nominee, will speak in Topeka that night. Rockefeller's address in Topeka will be at a $25-per-plate fund-raising dinner.
In a telephone interview, a spokesman at the state GOP headquarters in Topeka said it is not definite that Rockefeller will come to Lawrence. The spokesman said that he was "expected" to accept Anderson's invitation, though.
KANSAS GOV. John Anderson has invited Rockefeller and his wife to the KU-MU game.
KU YOUNG REPUBLICANS' president, Jerry Dickson, Newton senior, said if Rockefeller attends the Nov. 25 game here, "The Young Republicans will stage a welcoming party and an appropriate display at the game."
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Exchange Theater Takes Step Forward
Exchange theater in the Big Eight took a major step forward at the Mid-America Universities' Conference of theater directors here Saturday. Lewin Goff, associate professor of speech and drama and director of the University Theatre, said yesterday.
In addition to the exchange program, the theater directors discussed the idea of establishing a resident theater company composed of postgraduate students from the Big Eight schools.
They also agreed to establish a closer relationship with community theaters and agreed to hold an April audition at KU to look over students for community theater and semi-professional work.
Population Explosion
SAN FRANCISCO — (UPI) California is expected to be the No.1 state in population by the latter part of 1963, according to estimates of the State Department of Finance.
The state's population was estimated at 16,445,000 on July 1. If the present trend continues, the department said, it will top 17,665,000 by July 1,1963.