ATOMIC-DRIVEN BATTLESHIPS FORESEEN
; rReceived Sunday, 9.55 p.m. WASHING-TON, M.aroh 31. The navy's 40^009,000,000 dollar peacetime research Pipgtamme includes investigation of the tuse of atomxc energy ' as fhe propwlsiy,e force for battleshjps, the development of uuclear munitions .and thb -education of personfie] in the application of nuclear energy, Rear- Admiral Harvold Bowen told mem-. beps of the Asspciatfon foy the Advancement of Science. He emp.hasised fhe possjhility .of atomic-driven battleships in the ne.ar futjrre &nd pointe.d ouf fhht sneh a yessel would have an unheard-of speed and! crujsing ridius, dictafed oply hy the1 anipunt o.f pfpvisipns thaf could bg carrfed, fhe navy glso hoped to dgvelpp atomic bomb ' earrying Planes with ' speeds of w^ll ,oy.er 1000 miles an hour. \
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 April 1946, Page 5
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