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DISASTROUS EFFECTS ON AGRICULTURE. WEATHER PREDICTS
THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Car^in^
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1956
Rilev Calls Current Nuclear Bomb Tests In Pacific ‘Costly Blunder
J , . . j_,„» clear bomb tests, if the
— ,1-- t>—atmosphere by such explosions early aate. ^
E. G. B. Riley, the Southern
Pines resident who during the
past six months has warned the
U. S. State Department and the
heads of several foreign nations.
Pope Pius XII and other world
leaders against further detonation
of atomic and thermo-nuclear
weapons, said this week that the
time has come for the public to
abandon its apathetic state of
mind on the subject. He urged
the public to write Congressmen
in an effort to bring about partici
pation of the United States in an
agreement with other world pow
ers that testing of such weapons
be discontinued.
A student of the effects of light
and the holder of many patents in
that field, Mr. Riley has conclud
ed that all life on earth is threat
ened by puclear explosions. Rea
son for this, he says, is that radio
active material projected into the
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will, through photodynamic ac-
tion, destroy those particles in the
atmosphere which prevent trans-1
mission of the sun’s deadly Cos^
mic and Gamma rays to the earth.
He thinks tests should be made to
see if such rays are not already,
as a result of past nuclear explo
sions, penetrating to lower alti
tudes than ever before. And he
sees, in extremes and disruptions
of the weather all over the world,
evidence of the results of atomic
and thermo-nuclear explosions
which have already taken place.
Tests Now Going On
Since The Pilot’s last report on
Mr. Riley’s activities, published
January 19, he has received a let
ter from Morse Salisbury, infor
mation director of the Atomic En
ergy Commission, which refers
to the nuclear tests now being
held at the Eniwetok Proving
Grounds ini the Pacific.
This week Mr. Riley quoted
with scorn a newspaper dispatch
which related how an official, ob
serving the current tests, told
newsmen that it was ’’the news
papers’ function to persuade a
troubled world that the tests are
not only necessary but harmless.”
The whole testing program, said
Mr. Riley is “a terrible thing.” It
appears to him to be a “propa
ganda show to justify the expend
iture of millions of dollars.
“They are playing down the
cost of the testing program, too,”
he asserted, “but they’re spending
millions. Tlley’ve had 12,000 men
over there for six months. And
now they’re trying to tell report
ers what newspapers ought to say
about the tests.”
The AEC letter quotes President
Eisenhower’s budget message on
the need to increase the U. S. nu
clear weapons stockpile, while al
so speeding the development of
the peaceful uses of atomic ener
gy and continuing to hope “that
an international atomic energy
agency will be established at an
The letter enclosed reports on
the effects of nuclear weapons
testing and effects of atomic ex
plosions on weather.
Disagrees With Reports
Mr. Riley disagrees with the
conclusions of both of these re
ports: that radioactive material is
“dissipated in the stratosphere
andi that atomic explosions “have
no pos'sible connection” with the
weather. He points out that nu
clear and thermo-nuclear explo
sions are vastly more powerful
than atomic blasts and charges the
Atomic Entergy Commission with
complacency in accepting this re
port without apparent questioning
or further investigation.
“The comparison of the atomic
to the H-bomb is equivalent to
comparing a firecracker to an
atomic bomb,” Mr. Riley said.
The Atomic Energy Commission
came into the Riley correspond-
clear bomb tests, if the other na
tions would agree to such a cessa
tion of testing.
Should AcceiJt Proposals
Says Mr. Riley: “The old adage
that ‘the United States has never
won a diplomatic victory’ is being
lived up to at this time, as evi
denced by our futile efforts to
force the Disarmament Commit
tee of the United Nations to ac
cept a most complex plan for dis
armament. It is officially estimat
ed that the plan proposed by our
representatives could not be plac
ed in operation within five years.
“The United States should ac
cept the proposals made by
France, India and Russia to im
mediately abolish the testing de
tonations of atomic and nuclear
bombs, instead of insisting that
the United States will not agree to
the cessation of these detonations
until an agreement has been ar
rived at covering all the items
came into comprise our complex draft
to ot the ge„er.l die»„.n.e„t et.te-
the AEC lor stu^^d reply. ^„elopm.„t ol guided
Soviet Re«iv^ letter missies and other defensive wea-
of the Soviet ^nio^ was ^ Lately stop the staging of shows
recently by Mr Riley tnroug Congressmen
Georgi N. Zaroubin, USSR ambas valueless propaganda pur-
sador to the USA. Lnctps ”
ha^as^ fo^tr Sihl 1 Refusal of the United States to
“Soviet Union, ever since the first
days of the existence of the Unit
ed Nations Organization, has ac
tively advocated cessation of the
arms drive and prohibition of |
atomic weapons.”
The Soviet Union, the letter
said, will continue its effort to put
the program of disarmament into
practice, including the discontinu
ance of atomic and hydrogen wea- j
pons. .
Mr. Riley had written to high
officials of the United States,
Great Britain, France and the So- |
I Viet Union, asking each if his na-
Ition would agree to stopping nu- |
abolish bomb testing “wiU go
down in history as one of the most
costly blimders ever committed
by any government,” Mr. Riley
thinks. He has many times point
ed to unseasonable and extrqme
weather as the result of nuclear
bomb blasts and he predicts that
if the current detonations are not
halted, crops will be so affected
that farm production will fall to a
point that will necessitate drawing
on government-held agricultural
surpluses.
Mr. Riley believes that radioac
tive particles thrown up into the
atmosphere by atomic and nuclear
explosions have diverted the “pol
ar currents” in the upper atmo
sphere from the course they have
followed for hundreds of years
and have also increased the en
ergy and velocity of these cur
rents. As evidence of this, he cites
“record-breaking fluctuations of
temperature” and other climatic
disturbances.
Mr. Riley thinks that the only
solution to the problem of stop
ping the bomb detonations is ac
tion by Congress. And he urges
the public to write their Congress
men to that effect.
In that bracket, 372 drivers were
at the wheel at the time of the
fatal accident. Other age groups
showed up like this: 16-19, 166,
20-24, 308; 35-44, 261; 45-54, 117;
55-64. 68; 65-74, 34; and over 75,
six. Age was not stated in 44 re
ports.
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volved in fatal automobile acci
dents in North Carolina last year.
A study by the State Department
of Motor Vehicles shows that
drivers in the 25-34 age bracket
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