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Next Nuclear GoalWould Be Death-RayNEW YORK (AP)-The jmme-diate goal of the United States in any resumption of nuclear tests would be development af a fantastic neutron death-ray bomb, according to published reports.The New York Daily News quoted an unidentified Washington official as saying-. “It’s a safe assumption that we will be testing the neutron- bomb very soon/'Tne New York Joumal-Ameri-ean reported it had. learned the death-ray bomb “is the prime goal in the resumption of nuclear tests by the United States, and not an-, other H-bomb.The neutron bomb was described as producing death without destruction by blasting out unseen, r unfelt neutrons that could penetrate three feet of concrete. It could vwipe out’the populations o£ entire; cities without major damage to the cities themselves.Essentially, the difference between neutrons and other types of radiation is that they penetrate man-made structures and kill animal and human life inside without leaving the building or nearbyground saturated with the casual-ty-uroducing contamination.There was no immediate comment from the White House, Pentagon and other sources in Washington on the report;Tie late Thomas E. Murray, a former Atomic Energy Commission member, told the presidential candidates in an open letter during the last election.campaign that such a bomb is possible. He said conceptual^ designs lor such a weapon existed In American lal* oratories and would have been tested had il not been for the moratorium on nuclear testing.
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Newport Daily News
Newport, Rhode Island, US
Wed, Nov 01, 1961
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