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\TOMIC MYSTERYRepresentative Melvin Price. D-Ill., who favors resuming above-the-ground atomic tests, is quietly investigating why President Kennedy called off a series of small underwater nuclear tests in the fall of 1961.Details gathered by Representative Prices Joint Atomic Subcommittee show that a Navy task force sailed into the Pacltic last fall to test new warheads for an anti-submanne weapon However, before the first weapon could be exploded, orders came from the White House not to make the test. The fleet returned: Mission unaccomplishedRepresentative Price wants to know what role, if any. Dr Wiesner played in calling off these experiments He already has established that Wiesner influenced the Prsident to ax ’ the atomic-powered airplane project.★ * ★ATOMIC IALLOITThe Defense Department and the Atomic Energy Commission have set aside $100 million for the new series of tests. Once the green light is flashed, the tests will be conducted at Johnson. Christmas and Kwajalein Islands In the Centra Pacific . . The testing of an atomic warhead for theArmy’s Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile will be one of the first tests The Navy has five different types of anti-submarine warfare weapons that her experts want tested.
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Las Vegas Sun
Las Vegas, Nevada, US
Sun, Feb 11, 1962
Page 29
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