RUSSIA MAY BE TESTING THE RE-ENTRY OF WEAPONS FROM SPACE

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: August 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE NEW YORK TIDIES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1967
Russia May Be Testing the Re-Entry of Weapons F?om Space)
By EVERT CLARK hers boasted in November, 1965,finally begun tests of the re-+extensively with the precise)
Special to The Sew Yo:? I-.mos :l a~co of an "orbital missile" 'that entry of warheads from orbitlcontrol of re-entry vehicles
WF,SHIGTON, Aug. 19-An !wE''' could deliver nuclear warheads On Jan. 25 of this year, Rus-,from 6rbital trajectories, even
unusual sequence of space] on the first or any other or sla again launched a vehicle]
iwith its secret military flights.
launchings b the Soviet Union, CCCr` v." i bit around the earth." from Tyuratam at a 49-degree
has led some American officials!' ,~?,d Not until last September, angle. This one apparently didh Many of the techniques have
- Gemini civilian manned)
are testing techniques for re : t~~ ) /~ duct a launching that appearedlof pieces as the two earlier in
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That flight, on Sept. 17, 1966,1flight for a very short time. reconnaissance flights,-owever.
This could developing the Rus- y Y In the past, objections to the
suns are developing weapons, o~aFoav r was made from Tyuratam in This time, Russia announced) 1 I
to be stationed in orbit. ti'.`eap- C'fo-, ' statiomn of bombs or inter-i
Kazakhstan. Its ang,e of inch-glhe flight as Cosmos 133, pre jcePfor rgissi]es in orbit hate'
on re-entry techniques can be! jr o ken,- 'nation to the equator 3 was dif-
smnabl deciding that Western ; Ugr . b
tested with or Vrth6ut the use. J ti ':r
"~e~ jferent from that of
any previous detection and discussion of thebeen many and varied. Corsi-j
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of v, capons, and the same re j f" ~ y Soviet shot. tvn earlier flights made it use- ,1etely aside from the political;
entry techniques can be used! Soon after launching, the 9e-Mess to pretend such flights dldIcon-.deJ-ations, critics have ar
for either nuclear or conven-I 4p. T "t j lucle was observed by Westernlnet exist. ued that orbiting systems are,
tional weapons. 0 araclcing stations to break into But
Soviet announce..^.:entsvulnerable and less efficient
The flights begav,n as calast Sep' ~_ 1O ~ at least 80 pieces. On Nov. 2. did not report a period for Cos-and some are costly and less
..,, 1066, a si;nilar shot was naade.tinos 139-tube length of timejsecretive than ear th-based mis
ectcr in titihatssia1
secrecy even for the Russians.) i c Russia did not report thejthat the satellite would take tousles.
sThe most recent flight in the launching of either vehicle, al complete each revolution in1 But Dr. Charles M. Herzfeld,)
scries of seven was made 11' ! s. Lo\\\~ f, e though it has long used its so-'space. then a Pentagon scientist, re-
days ago. yr ,,..t called "scientific" cosmos sate)- The unusual, short-livved'minded Congressmen late last
L e j-~~ 'lite series to disguise military-flights at 49 degrees from the
U.N. Resolution Recalled ]h'larch that studies of a
space-flights, based anti-missile system were
Since before the space age officials. peated at least four more times abandoned three years ago be-
began, military analysts have In December, 1966, American since. Each was given aCos- cause the work was "much too I
discussed the possibility of sta- adopted by the General Assem- officials disclosed their con- mos number. costly."
tioning weapons in orbit. Thelbly in 1963 with Soviet sup-Icern over these two flights, Both the United States and "We think the time is getting
ideas proposed have included port, calls upon all states to re-j finally listing them in an of- Russia are developing maneuv- ripe again," he said, "to look
bombs, missiles that could in-frain from placing weapons official catalogue even though'erable warheads for missiles- at the whole question because
ter`cept other missiles launched mass destruction in orbit Russi announcedwarheads that can alter their the costs of putting things in
from earth and manned bom-I But the question of whether them paths late in the flight in order orbit have gone down dra-
hers and inspection-interceptor this prohbits the development) Ev : that, some to confuse interceptor missiles. matically, so that the over-all
vehicles- of such weapons as never been milik rivately that But the United States is not,cost of the system ought to
A United Nations resolution,-resolved. Soviet military lead- + they SL, VC:- .Ioscow had believed to have experimented! come down significantly."
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