25X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95B00915R001000510010-7 rod Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95B00915R001000510010-7Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95800915R001000510010-7 LET ay cy Concept of a charged: particle beam weapon is based on the design of a negative hycrogen beam that is acceler passing the beam through a charge exchange cll. In this ballste missile defense concept, the collmated chars Soviets Push for Beam Weapon USSR develnping charged-particle device aimed at missile 5 defense, exploring high-energy lasers as satellite killer by Marshal of the Sovit Army Geral PLP aniskiy. Since the PVO_ Steam By Clarence A. Robinson, tr. sould bs sponser Teor Bea and neutralized by y U.S. iatercontinestal and. sabmarine-iiuscted bilist Development cl The Soviets “eo are 8 Pain. ys technology ancl of U.S. physicists sn engineds work to test a Spaveborne hydrogen uoride high-energy lnser designed fo satsice killer role, US. olliials have iirectew-energy weapons under LISAF sponsorship that-the Soviets wed 8 level af success i exeh of 1s of high-encrgy physics neces tw develop # bean weap ‘bean ssepons and © Shifts in by a mumber of ial clap . physicists, who ‘A eliarged:particle tam weapon fo- _parlele beammabaise RAVE Pa ovie capability ta co ruses a pall, ea hae Semulninck develop the techolouy fora charged: witehcomt be directed” 8 Ground testing of a small hydrogen particle beam eh There iy now space to fuoride vehicles, gy laser and detection of - grudging admission that the USSR. is Preparations ta lnuneh the deviee on board involved in a program that could produce 1 spacecraft. Some U.S. ollicials believe sucha weapon the test of the antisatelite laser may be = Recent revelations by Soviet physicist io recent ‘Soviet activites on a Leonid 1. Rudakow Selyet space st ni wearer space. This metiod Wax fa ow ar mice powerfe) te am throng the eis Steph ‘compress fusionable ma Felease mesimun fusion, energy Mu the dita ontlined by Rudaken durin 1c Lawrence Livermore Libor: ‘nent too. phi round chamber in freee ee ee itn Dy the TRW ely ‘warning stelite stations over the Fan Ocean, sbuled ton seeret By nil the ners ‘weapons ane the Sen ies sy under =D eos gues So eae PVO Suny). comonunded ‘Tehnoingy r Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95B00915R001000510010-7rape peas ‘toward a target Using a space-based design fora charged-partile beam weapon av and the ‘ask of propagating he beam through the atmosphere. Both the USSR and US. have spr STAT 8.Pactern of activity in the USSR, deploymcit of large verthe in nurthicen Ressin 40 li ets ae involved in developing technology eomponsnts. that eould be used 10 price -chanped- particle bean we a gic now boing Jin the USSR hhumbers, U telusion char a decisive are coming 10 turn in the balance of strategic power ix in the making, which could tip thet bane heavily inthe Soviets through charged: oversy eenters on what conducted in ain urs ut 35 mi south of the iglatinnk mounting. evidence of reh facility ey of S (STIC) has review new di The Sen sk fitny where Bea 1p king piss Te To Th TooTty ba The buildin 200 ft The buildings 200 Ts ide and 700 _ Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95B00915R001000510010-7 sified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95B00915R001000510010-7 lect ofthe earth's magnetic fd on te beam experimental concepts of reinfays cumesede 3d aie Pupp eguipment, ti Lge sist S00 wily “bu "Phe text sie st The southern edge of tel the Semipaiatinsk nc! 5 ig is separated fran other test facili She tla mount invested by UST jn the test project For the 10 years" ark capture ther ed at $3 billion by U.S nd stone energy driven explosives or pole-power gener ats tos. The sted gores dre Boley by some Tis LS wilson pha: itso be among the sales! cls PAIR, 0 wine ight be aking atieSaus our is, toa a Ee The hok Tous oF tock we Debate Seen on Charged-Particle Work Washington —Senior U.S. sciontists and engineers believe that this nation is on the verge of heated debate aver the strategle implicaions of charged-paricle beam {velopment inthe Soviet Union and the US. That debate is just gtting under way and its key to rvat the ‘Fortress America Great Detense Debate in 1952 involving Taft {Son, Robert A. Tal the 8-36 bomber fand strategic detonse policies,” one U.S, oficial said, Some observers see an ominous pavaia! between the attitude of some U.S. ‘scientists toward beam weapons and that of tha fale Or. Vannevar Bush to feasibility of intercontinental balistic missiles in the mig-1340s, The highy scientist, who had directed the U.S. military research alfor! during World: War 2 testitied bfore a Senate committee in December, 1945: "There has been a reat deal nid about a 9,000-mi, high-angle rocket. . In my opinion, such thing Is lompossibie,. say technically | don’t think anybody in the world knows Now 49:d6 Such a thing and Ie! confident wil not be dane fo a very Tong period of time to ‘Within eight years, the U.S. would inate its awn massive elfort to develop tong range ballistic missles, sd within 10 years, the Soviet Union would be testing just such afong-range balist: missile,Declassified in Part - Sanitized from Langley AFB, Va, 10 Bitburg Air Fst operational squadron of Air Force/ McDonnell Douglas F ni bat Pigs te Geeta base Bose, West Germany, last weak in a single { movorment dosigned to show USAF eapabilly 10 reinforce NATO forces rapidly. The fight involves 25 F-18s, including two TF-18 trainers The 525th Tactical Fighter Squadron, commander ofthe 36th Tactical Fighter Wing, arrived at Btburg attr a7 fight wih four insight tuelings, Three of the unit's F-iSe already wore in place. Two additional 15 fighter alveratt tow Ted by Brig. Gen, Frederick C. Kyler, F-18 squadrons are to move to itburg by the end ofthe summer to bein the wing 1o fu strength, {+ Gen. Kyiorreported on arrival Yo Gen, Franz-loseph Schulze, commander-in-chiet 1 of Alied Forces, Central Europe. The 525th squadron was trained inthe U.S. ane was operational on orev The fight was mage with the aicr $ Belgium 0 Brburg acceptance ofthe concept within the U.S scientific community was. 0 convince high-energy physics experts that the Russians might be using nuclear explosive generalors as power souree 10 drive mible of producing ‘high teams of killing poten ity rote i Initially: some 1, 8. physicists believed there ws no method the Soviets could use to weld together the steel gores of the spheres 19 provide u vessel strong enough to withstand pressures likely to occur in the nuclear explosive fission process Particularly whea the stecl to be welded was extremely thick. U.S, ofcias later diseovored that the Russians invented process called tux welding and had been using it for years in producing pressure eux welding proces, spheres. ing to some U.S, officils, makes the bonded material weld as strong as, oF stronger than, the steel walls U.S. oflicias, scientists and engineers {queried said that the technologies that ean De applied to produce 2 beam’ weapon include: ® Explosive oF pulsed power generation through cither fission ar fusion to achieve pak pulses of paver Gia capacitors Gapable of storing extremely high levels of power for frac tions of & second © Electron injectors capable of gener: high-eneeay pulse streams of elec trans'at high velochies. This 8 critical to producing some types of beam weapons or to. gencrhe efectvon pulse streams o hot gas plasma necessary to sceelerate other sul particles at high velocities, 8 Flux compression from explosive generat produce the electron bea ceord. cove eiergy Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95B00915R001000510010-7 ouped in theee cols of six aicratt and one cal of five, with about 30 min. separation between cells. Fight couling was-alang the U.S. and Ganacian east coasts to Newloundiand, then across the Ylantie, Britan and Maintenance personnel were in place at Bitburg betore the squadron arrived, with some having been tained in the U-S. and some at Bitburo “entire spectrum sf Facil ® Switehin energy from 1 © Development of pressurized line fer the pus (ron the tenerators to power stores. The lines mis be -eryogenically cooled because of the extreme power levels involved For several years, Air Foree Maj, Ge George J. Keegan, who until his recen retirement healed USAP's intelli setvities, hs beep trying to eonvinee the Central Intelligence Agency and number oftop U.S. high-energy physicists thatthe Soviets are developing a charged-pacticle beam weapon for vse in an snliballistie missile role Evidence was gathered by Air Force imlligence from a variety of sources, including early warning and high-resolu necessity 10 store te senerators i hee cape ceded 10 tion reconnaissance sitellte, published USSR papers om high-energy physics nd visits between Soviet_and. Free. World Physicists. In contacts with scientists Aeeply involved in developing componenis necessary for beam weapon application in both the USSR and the U.S, dati was alesned that clearly showed «he Russians to be years ahead of the U.S. in must areas of technology, one U.S. physicist, said, He added that it Be lear that the Soviets were making a concerted efor 10 devslap the (echnology in exch area so that, if it was pulled together, a benm weapon and possibly related laser weapons cad result AL of the evidence that Gen, Keegan tnd hit small team gathered about Soviet designs on chargedepartile Beams” was presented to the CIA and its Nuclear Intelligence Board, which has so for jected theie conclusion that beam weap. ‘ons development is evident. idence I boon ws period ind invalved the is for test and experimentation, research laboratories poser generation, elects injection, col lective acceleration ané beam props me increasingly re. Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95B00915R001000510010-7 tion —all reas where the Soviet Union has outpaced the U.S., according 9 a U.S. oli Some scientists and engineers refuscdlto seeept information that the instillation Semipalatinsk had anything to do. with bbeam-generation tests or that levels of energy. required for these -experiments could be attained. And even if so, sehovr the energy could be generated, it eould not be harnessed for beam application, Energy Levels Required _ Typical levels af energy required lar ws with 31 beam weapon are 10" joules per pulse, with the energy of @ particle of the beam From 1 to 100 giga slectton volts is these levels of energy required that sil cause some skepticisin among high-energy Dhysieints “Keegan refused to accept CIA's eval ution of the USAF intelligence da USS. oficial said set about acquiring talented young physi cists unalyze* the information and 10 robe the basic physies of the proble ‘whieh U.S. notably dficient ‘One scientist in particular, a USAF ivilian employe at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, was influential in providing Gen. Keegan with an assessment of the information, which sid that it appeared , the focility’ at Semipalatinsk’ was’ being \evoloped for use for nuclear power gener ation related 0 beam weapon work, His assessinent wis mde very early ia the observation of the facility. long before atmaspherie dati of possible beam weap ‘ons testing was obtained. “These young physicists gathered to his cause by George (Gen. Keegan] were a very sharp group of young turks, and some hve since gone on to, gain stature within the high-eneray physics crowd” one olf il said In yas anticipated by Gen. Keegan and his advisers thar vhe USSR" wouhi be forced fo vem gaseous hydrogen from the experiments at Semipatatinsk and_ that curly warning satellites could detect it ‘So, he systeinaticaly Underground Testing Liquid hydrogen in large amounts is believed by some oliials to be utilized to cushion the nuclear explosive generator sphere and for eryogenie pumping of hirge Adrift tubes nearly a ilometee in length {hrowgh which the beams are propagsted for underground testing, In oth cases, rge amounts. of piseous hydrogen are formed and released into the atmosphere, ‘Explosions of such itharges are now Be rity front Soviet experiments.” a S. official said, “and scientific studiesDeclassifed in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP@SB00818R001000510010-7 Experimental euto-resonant accelerator concept shows the hardware Configuration in diagram. The design Is to determine whether the led plasma wave can be grawn in a laboratory and whether (acceleration of protons can be achieved. The ilustration sows that the more ofiient acceleration of particles may be of the gas. releases and explosions have confirmed their source as being. near the Semipalatinsk Facility.” -USAF_ intelligence. developed an_acro-, Bim= PNUT to refer to the test ata a ‘Semipatatinsk. The letcr P is for posible and the other ‘et stand for nuclear underground test. The CIA sill refers ta the site ax URDF-3—unidemtfied re search and development facility thee In recent public pronouncements, Gen, Keegan has taken the CIA to task for having: rejected Air Force intelligence information about Soviet beam. weapon development, He alsa has spoken biterly about a number of top U.S. physicists ‘who refuse to accept even: the possibilty that the Soviets re involved in bewn weapon development. Most of the physi cists who would not accept the data were folder members of the scientifi community who had been involved in research and evclopment from the early days of a project called Seesaw Project Abandoned The U.S. attempted unsuccessfully 10 develop a charged-particle, beim device under the project vode named Scesaw. It funded .by the Defense Depi.'s Advanced Research Projects Agency but abandoned after several years ‘A number of influential U.S, physicists sought to discredit Gen, Keegan's evidence About Joviet beam development The gen: eral atitude within the scientific eommu- nity ‘was that, if the U.S. could not Successfully produce the technology 10 have a beam weipon, he Russ ty could not. "It was the orig mted-here attitude,” ane U.S about 20 hypotheses ad vanced by these physicists and the CAS a : a Nuclear Intelligence Board as 10 what the facity a Senpaatinsk way being used for by the USGI One theny wa tha i vis supersonic ramjet test site and Bother was thal it was 3 clear reactor tex te for commercial applications ‘That tes bse on the Layo which resembled some reais inthe USSIR "here ir now no doubt thi there is dumping of nergy taking place a te sie sith burning of large hadensen, dams NNectear Inteligence Board al fist was hat it ws hard to imagine thi some seven technologie’ rial tothe weapons cincepl could be perfected. there within te RES tra pot be dstcte by us “inet dixgrove the USAF sa the Ai ores advance, atleast 10 ition,” one US. alical d. “But-along the way Keegan became aan outcast within CHA and Inteligence Agency. This was despite the Fact that many times in the past it teened fout that his intelligence. information proved correct when it was not accepted at Hirst. He [Keegan] made some great intel ligence breakthroughs,” anotier oficial ssid [As evidence of Soviet inten the Air Force convened 3, munitions panel of its Scientific Advisory Bosed to ‘examine the problem. The panel met st Livermore Laboratory for three days study the data of Gen, Keegan and. his technologists. Some members. of that panel also were involved in the Secsiw eet before i was hale he punct of experts rejete IN of the Air Force's Lypothese emotional meeting, they denigrated all Suggestions of siuclear explosion gener tion, power storage, power tronsinission 1 Delense noun, possible using the concept where a travling beam teaps and accelarates protons, The than simply a mecium for propagation of imac tnat serves as the po Feld of the wave and for aceeteating the ions and. collects seceleration,” an oflcial explained, "The bottom ling-was vat the panel said there is no way’ 19 control or stabilize sueh a beam if at weapnn® Produced. The net reilt is that evidence about possible heam weapons development vas rejected Late. some of rejected the char relied the Sov same physicists who d-parviele bear dat many separate areas of required tech folugy for beam weapon application Some physicists involved sought fending from the National Seence Foundation and Fnergy Rescarch snd- Development Administration for nuclear power and beam generation studies, one ollicial sd a ellort ta prove that USAF sell gence estimates tere correct, Gen. Kes Ban and his young. physicists set bua trying 10 peove Soviet tuchilogy evists im areas necessary for bean weapons ‘Theoretical Blocks Isolated Alter isolating the théaretical goad: blocks identified by the Seieatitic Adv sory Boaei's munitions panel the physi isis, slong with several new groups recruited by Gen. Keegan, went 10 sort exploring pissible USSR technolo ‘Within Few months the team under the direction af a young Air Fore. pays cist, fownd that all the: munitions panels tions cauld be overcome “an id boen solved in the Soviet Union ral breakthroughs in. high-cnerey es were involved,” an ollical sid Explosive generation sis solved jn the USSK by. Soviet nexiemicians Terletshy, who was once a KGB agent i Sweden, avd Andrei Sakharov, who was instrumental in developing the Soviet hydrogen bomb and i now # dissent Soviet physicist Rudaov sited the ___ Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95B00915R001000510010-7Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : ClA-RDP95800915R001000510010-7 U.S. in July, 1976, and outlined his major advances in electron beam fusion, ERDA immediately tried 10 cover up the ideas he Presented at Livermore in response 10 1 taunt by 2. Western seientist, Tt was al considered highly sceret in the U.S, and “those seated there hand to sit with their mouths open sid not respond 10 Rida kov's outline,” one U.S. physicist said His idea sired the U.S. physics community, by its magnitude-—transtorm ing Taser and electron beams to soft X-rays to compress fusion fucl at low energy levels, This i a res! scientific Break through,” the pliyscist said, “nd cou allow then to produce Jarge amounts of Fusion power to be used. in producing jenergy for bs Rudakow hind suuch-pood resvits in using relativistic elec tron beams to ehieve fusion that he now veloping a $5S-million -muchine Funded for this purpose in Russia called Angara 5,3 physicist added Gen. Keegan and his physies team Guickly determined that the next problem Wo be resolved was lux coinpression needed 10 convert enorpy from explosive enevation o cleetreal energy to-power ua Through psa 1 Livermore objected and said 21 power pulses gener could not-be conducted over known Cabling without Ovening it wp until Gen Keegan's excarchers discovered that pres siirizal gis lines. invented in the U.S years eather by HT and General etric STATE Sale an in ase by the USSR. Reconnaissance Data Pry at the Semipalatinse ste Jeng and 1 thore for amothe} Fong pony west nen Tames. Phuoaraghs Team salle lees aise oC bak acc T ar Roe being used by the Soviets for eryogenie praniping of beam drift tubes, This was teonsidered impossible by U.S. seivatiss because they believe Tiguid hydrogen is too volatile and dangerous for eryogeni use. -Aqain, however, papers hiss bn publish fe in tae USSR on the subject, and lid hydrogen hts Boom used Far years For tat purpose. ote oflcial ad Oficinls believe that exbling leading From the gadersround granite chamber at Seminatti sie thickewae buildin they believe Alung the 206-M, side’ are located the elecizon injsetor gun and the volletive Jerator,secording to thei theory. The Power is Fed inio them to peaduce n In-House Research Washington—U. 5. Air Force and Navy house research and exploratory develop iment to approximately 35%, with 659% bing contracted out, Defense Dept official tla Congress, This «© approximately the goa! set a year ago (awsst June 7, 1976. p. 47), lion L. Alen said during testimony betore the House Armed Services sub- committee on research and. cevelop- ment, Allen is deputy director of Delense research and engineering for research fang advanced technology Earle, tho Navy agreed to a cut of 3,000 persons and the USAF 10 a vedue- tion of 1,000. These reductions ware t0 research and development sta and were ‘The goal for the Army was placed at 2.900 employes, a tigue to which that Service has not yet agioed, although discussions. are in progress. Allen ac knwiedged that the Army = “heal i house" oriented ang would have to Shit personnel from lableratory work to fchieve tne 25% goal beam, The bow is Bent at an angle by magnetic mirrors and propelied near the speed of light along the drift tubes running underground sbaut kilometer, they hetiove, and the drift tubes are eveuated to sinvalate operating the bean ia spice and are used only for bean propagsition fnent Was to monitor movement of Baeous hydrogen clouds. The ges its flow was sea oF that Gen Keegan and his scientists investi They disenvered that the Soviets hi solved the problem carlice by usiig in wiler expacitors to store energy. Dense Nields of eneeay/elcetricity ean be stored ning prowitized water as dielectric with pressure 10 100 atmospheres. This is considered sinother breakthrough by U.S physicists, bovause the USSR ean store 40 Times the density of enorey that ean be stored in the Froe Warld, one alicia explained. “This technology is now being developed in the U.S." he added, afer st was completely verified unr contract with the Delense Nuclear Agency For the past 15 years there has teen an pen and free exchange bsiweea the U.S and the USSR in the hith-energy physics ares, one U.S. physicist explained, That exchange is related mosily to projects foe nuclear power generation for commercial Application, but by its very ature, the development of enerey or glshoots of the technology has application 10 the beam ‘weapons field, the llc said “This i ficld where to our knowledge there are few secrets. We go Freely 10 thait [USSR] laboratories and have few doors barred 10 us,” 4 US. high-energy physi and the same thing is tous for Thee in this country.” This dacs not apply to lebortories where weapons develop. ment is heing carried ont Gon, Keegan's sciemitié teams set ov 10 prove the feasibility in another area of Soviet technology reguiced for beam ‘weapons use—seitehing, Switching the energy from its storage capacitors to clectron injector is a major clement Fequieed Tor the weapon to function, secording to U.S, experts A small U.S. company has devised a breakthrough in switehing. technol U.S seiinst explained, and has patented it. Theoretical feasibility has now been Tully established, the seientst added The electron jajetor was the next area ‘of investigation on whieh the team focused For this 10 be sticeestul several engineers have explained, » gener ator is needed 10 provide steady siceam fof rapidly pulsed plasma of 104 million cleciron volts per pulse at fevels of 10 "This i pure Huck Rogers to the physic i Livermore Laboratory.” who refused to accept that the Sovie secomplish ity” one U.S U.S. scientists since have confirm that Soviet high-energy institutes Tong azo solved problems of electcon injec: tion that place them years alead of U. S technology. “At the Institute ef High= Energy Physics in Novosibirsk, US. sieniss have found generator technology That when sealed up, can be used as an electron injector." Such equipment is nose being exparted to the US. For commercial une. The Soviet technology invelvell iy at Teast 10 years ahead of anything vader development in the U.S, CIA Chief Informed In 1975, Gen Keegan disclosed his find 1 oa Soviet technology related 10 be ‘weapons development to William Colby ther head of the CIA, and t0 8 number of its nuclear scientleravises. oii said “On the sirength of Keegan's iaformt tion that the Soviets were on the vere developing weapon wo neutralize ICBMs and SLBMs, Colby directed the formal ‘convening of the CLAS Nuclear Taceligence Panel to consider the disco sites," tceonding toa U.S. oficial Ta final meeting last year with the panel, Gen, Keegan and his associates presonted evidence over theew-day pera tothe panel, The panel went into executive session Uo study the dats and then wrate its purl. No copy af the report was ever presented 10 USAF intelligence. ___ Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95B00915R001000510010-7 STATDeclassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95B00915R00100051001 i | | | \ bIODE WAVE POWER GROWTH SUPPLY SECTION e IWECTION SECTION PROTON INJECTION pRoTon BUNCH MAGNETIC FIELD COILS ACCELERATION SECTION Collective accelerator principle in a schematic drawing showe that more ficient acceleration ot particles may be possible when a teveling wave in an electron beam traps and accelerate That is) standard, one’ official said, because copies af the report are routed nly to- those in authority within the cla “AWhat the°report aid was that there were no technological errors in USAF's Analytical work. Ir was agreed by the board that there i a-massive effort in the USSR involving hundreds of laboratories nd thousands of top seientists to develop the technology-neoesary for production of f beam or other energy weapon for use fgtinst U.S, ICBMs and SUBMs," 3p ‘ollicial Said, The report also said the board was unable.10 aveep: USAF 's detailed conclusions regarding the exper ‘ental site at Seo s sesording Firs to CIA were unwilling 10 the Soviets coil harness technology into a working ‘weapon oF demonstration stern. They were willing 10 accept that the technology had been developed indepen ently, BuL not thal his been used in series for weapons work at either Semipal atinsk of Avg, olicals si. Colby wraie Feter to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger just before he Jef on a trip ta negotiate with the Soviets about straegic arms, limitations “and Ietioned thal there “was. facil felated to. nuclear funetions. that unknown but that iL might have high scientific application,” one oflicia said With that exception, none of the USAF ineligence data fas ever been mule vail able 10 the President, the secretary of Slate or the National Security Counei, he added. “The major argusient now raging within the intelligence community is whether lity at Semipalatinsk is experimental nature and whether if will require jor effort by the USSR over: many years 10 build mare such facilities to use For weapons purses “One ofthe problems is that some US. inteligene faci a Semipalatinsk is the oficial continued, H'depends on how is visualized. “This is a case where the imental hardware, is identical to the nee’ sary to destroy"an ICBM. ground al the is used only (0 Simulate upper atonspheric and. space conditions far the testin operations use whe tld be fired from the collective acveleentor front ene. Alice 10 sexes of wy bot he "8 with prooype Bes in aperational Ticials believe weapon, and Ht exwld be Tort by 1930, son ‘Another big vbjection olfered by seme U.S. pliysicigs and other scientists that ite beam from sich seapon wll have 10 uted andl bent incoming wares in be prop 9 intereen try weil, extremely dificul One. possi tion G8 tat mag be used for beam bonding to ineroent reentry vehicles Despite strenuous objections from US. jemtits aver the “feasibility of beam USAF intelligence established Soviet solution to thy. problem fer. the Soviet hes eomcept. Precise point AMY 1 Feyuized the depo station of iment to detect avenic reuntry wehicle trajectaies in the USSR. By sin proton beams into these windows, CBS i SLIM could be quickly. seistatod ie rapidly plot and destroyed” he expsaine The windows would be leworasl fie 1.0040 to 2,090 pai. ami ont in sin “With this method, misay acquisition snc tracking problems could be overenrse, BE he window concept to seater the fun aver a wide ats warheads mst through witch Wie betes tha fot aman hosin weapon devices woul be reyuired 4 protect the USSR Tronia 1S. retaliatory strike,” the ollcil sd Mang deployment sehteimes of pre simplicity are open fo the Russie. One suci”sclieie wkd be 4 pace the colle tive aeveleravors vertically ins silos th the USSR snow elsime are For wsim i ‘ental and communication There area hast 150 of ese silos the U.S. is saw overlogking DY saplin the Soviet detinition as " Sis Hinkel to thse wilh the yavslens For comtainiient af the explosive potern tor. the Soviets could sgplay such at apster Within a Fee Feats, a iil sai Since the necessry ralars are we lopseatonslreainess ll ‘ Ststeon components conde ony he ake The one thing Keown] fas __ Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95B00915R001000510010-7Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95800915R001000510010-7 U,S. ollcits soolT at the idea that the bbiekwwird Russians can develop technolo. ay that we hive been unable 18 develop in the U.S. Sone ollicial said. "He [Kee san} adits that he could be wrong, but fre is not wrong about the Soviets" wil 40 produce such a weapon and about the hutional assets they are devoting (it “From all of this evidence we have a good idea of whore the Soviets ate in development hey are healed wih and high-energy and where bean weapons interest now within the scientific commu nity There isan ellnt under way to establish an geney in the U.S, 10 evordinate the evelopment of directed-oner Some cong ‘wepons, “sia stall members 3s well fs olicsls within the Ada pressing for this to be wecomplished Fragmented Development “Development is aow feagmented with various faetions rom a number of agen cies and laboratories trying to compete for Funding, What is needed now is for a scantrol point to be set up with some eohe- Sion and orderly pkinning to develop the tarious components of technology e- ‘quired. for wespons."" one House sta member si John 1. Allen, deputy direcior of Defense research and engineering. for research anil adsanced technology, sid ‘Science fiction writers hawe beep Kise nated with the eomuept of a directed fnergy weapon that beams energy directly tou target, obviating the need for bombs, missles of projectiles, weapon of this type now appears not only to be possible, but we may even hive a choice of the beams that cue be used. electrons oF other fundamental parties “Those beams ravel at, or ear speed of light {186,000 mi /sce] 80 the delivery time is negligible, an attrac: ibste for weapon, The Beams ean also be moved rapidly Trom one Harget 40 the next Thus, for defense aginst nearly Simuitineous rhultiple attackers, directed nergy weapons are appealing He added that highvenceay lasers are the most advanced uf the directed: vices. “About 1M years igo, it Be apparent that the generation sind pro tion uf damaging levels of energy mi sible.” Allen explained. “However, ‘technical. problems foresee were for able. High power is nooded for us lethal ranges. The ac! high power requires strong foundation of bis knowledge of the physics and ehes- istry of highly eveite! gases, coupled with in some systems, sophisticated figh: volume, high-velocity gas flow technology The flow rates involved in gas dynamic energy lasers are lke those Fron je engine, Tho, physical size is also compar fevement of __ Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95B00915R001000510010-7 “Silesian Allen ssid the Defense wanged Rescarch Projects Ager ing he application Bath the Army and Navy are pursuing terrestrial applications ‘The Air Foree is pursuing airborne appli cstions, and the Defense Advance Re- search Projeets Agency is looking at Fossible pplication of lasers. in_ spa lefense with emphasis an chemical lasers Ie is sill tow cay to determine the poten tial cast eectiveness of high-energy lasers ns, but the mext two oF three Years will yield great deal of insight Problems Cited Particle beams—bea ‘of high-energy lasers, for example are not dieelly alfested by the weather nd may provide long ranges thaa high-energy sees ia adverse weather, However, they have other prob- lems. Chargot-partiele beams have 9 tendeney to be unstable. They alo are deflected by magnetic fields, so” pointing tind tracking uncerinties exist. IF thes problems ean be solved, sculd result. We believe particle weapons might, in some 3 tions, present it usefi, alternative or complement tothe high-energy laser for siving us “rero time of Tigh? weapons. We ee ursuing projects. at an exploratory level” Allen’ told the Mouse Armed Services rescarch and development sub- The Navy is seeking $6 million i Fite 197% for s program called Chair Heritage to continue exploratory development of hheant weapons, mostly Felated to acveler {or development. It plans to transition advanced developnyent in Fiscal. 197 Navy is now working on a scaled-down advanced test aesclerator. The design for the device was selected in July, 1976, and experiments with the sseclerator Slated for completion in August, 1978 The aulo-resonant wecelerator, & mum: sable physicists believe, olfers the potential for generating. lav es ly intense: beams of igh nergy heavy pactictes, The device. is believed capable of generating beams of a electron volt range. Power be range of 10!" w. with fons in the levels would bein pulse lengths on the order of # inierasee.. ie, single pulses with an energy of 1-10 meajoutes From the military application stan point, the auto-resonant acsclerator hits the potenti Tor being used to deliver the equivalent of pounds of TNT (oblast targets at long ringegguhe The effects of sutton, Rat ed amos radiation woul! have an equally destructive impuct on warheads. Avstin “Assosiates. is doing bavie re Research search with the sufosrescnant secelerator ‘With # program of technology develop ment, senior experts in. physics believe sulstantislly higher energy levels ean be delivered to targets at looger ranges The aulo-resonait or ib not Fimited, to pulsed operation. That limit tion now is from the design of associated electron-beam diades and power supplies. W E-beam diodes and power supplics can bbe developed tbat cin be repetitively pulsed at the rate af 100-1,000 pulbes/see. for several seconds, average beam powers i the 1,000-megqatt range aee believed possible “A number of military applications are possible by changing the total energy quirements and repetition rates. Some o these missions are close at hand,” a U.S. physicist sid Under current funding, U.S. officials fare eonvinced that M.L. Sloan und William E, Drummond will Gomplete their mathematical model for the auto-resonant accelerator by July. In a paper on the aeveleritor concept, Sloan und Drum ‘mond explain the principle: conceptually simple and compact method of genezating pulsed ion beams inthe multi-ampece This accelerator scheme combines the basic concepts of traveling wave and colletive aezeleration. While the traveling wave is used for the ation process, the wave is a collective eigenmode of the electron beam-magnetic guide field eylin Grical guide system rather than a vacuum & conventional wave guide mode as in Economy in Size Hecause of the collective nature of the medium of propagation, much higher Fields can be s+ tained than ina conventional aceslerstor, allowing foe economy’ in the size of the machine, This is extremely important in ‘weapons application. clfective agevlera The cyclotron wave used in th resonant aecclerator is a negative wave x0 that i the seceleration process where energy is delivered. to. the ions, istend of being degraded, the elgctric field energy of the wave actually grows, {the auto-resonant accelerator achieves onfy a few poreent ellciency in conversion of electron beam energy to ion energy, pulbed currents in the. tens. of Amperes range or larger are anticipated The namie auts-resonant accelerators Aerived ro a ihe process invalved—the hovel feature is that as the eyelotron ited fons, it auton extracts energy Tram the relativistic electron beam. Power is thus automatically fed from the relaiv- iste beam to the resunant ions. To provide the the electron beam is propagated ina ‘The relativistic electron bea i the aeeel protons 10 high energies. ‘A pull of hydrogen can be allowed into the front or snjector-end of th resonant accelerator. When the electron bean is vurned on, the ionization process will strip the hydragen atoms 40 bareDeclassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95B00915R001000510010-7 Carter S trMtegic Weapon Funding Backed in House oto a edema dent Mig on te ambien hydrogens ad volume anf the" clcton beam enegy Current and crsssetion.Jogting thee Gaia er ear puke a ‘There are ee promig sane fr Fes afd rosearoh cvs, bu they arent AF boing actively pursued bersaoe of a ine ot ending coordination win the high-energy pie eld. according fo U's: ac Thee fnctade 2 Traveling potential wll aesleratr at Sandia Corp. funded ‘by the Tcrgy Research and’ Developmen’ Adit Wn and the USAF Ofer ot S arch. Graig, Okon veloped the concep for eostaling the secseation of a pote well wing an intense ight source or lasers beamed nto s lomprure ga fos twostep photo Cesar vapor forthe is 2 Sutsynchronaot pach model ace erator concep by Sidney Patna Phsies Internacional in San sande Call This concept "wat propoet iy Putnam in. 1972. but, ao experimental work has been accomplished inthe U.S The Soviets however have pick opis concept and accomplited tage work with it The concept use 9 space norrtargedneualzct electron, beso ions as it mows tough the sectors This bs bed on local agesne eh me 3 Calectve bunching del aes stor bing. developed under the Naval arch Laboraary long oth ane hrge wave, Cornell Univers doing the fmlaton work forthe Nan cept by Norman Resor at the Univer Sip of Cao alvin THs Somat provides fora small tras abo foee Meters in diameter A cloud of orton Sably confined inthe machine tot ‘ions inside a ring to focus them. : Lnivernty of Mabland under National Science Foundation sponsanhip. This ha Cron theme proposed ents ap “Many Teeibies reopen for the U.S. but femain uncxplorel” sorter (U'S, olor sei, "whether his rou From tack of irs lek of fone fo rercrch, ink of national focus foe ete inns elo belt tat the posit at rac weapons may adversely eee detects unclear I docs see ht the Sones have ton avery fern cone which may eventually prove ment U8 planers and analysis tbe wrong TPs pro cras carly enought hen be {oo ate for ur sent al eto establishment to ech up on whet nn fully be apoed tee vey Lone Sok Ica inthis ld of step deme” By Katherine Johnsen Washington House of Representatives last weck supported Preside Carter's strategic nuclear weapons program in passing a $35.7-billion authorization Tor Fiscal 1978 military reseagch. and development and procurement to buttress the Administstion's posture on a new strategie arms limitation (awasr Apr. IB p16). After twa days of debate, the measure was approved by a vote of 347 10 43, without any change inthe aerospace Program recommendations of the House Armed Services Committoe (awast Apr Hp. 21). The authorization increases the Adininisiration’s gequest for procurement programs by a nt $793 million. This is oft by a net reduction of $777 million in research and development programs. Bl Debated # The pros and cdns of the controversial USAF/Rockwell International Bl pro ram were argued on the House floor. But neither the advocates of accelerating. th program, nor the advocates of canceling i challenged the President's. d Procure five of the steaiepic Fiscal 1978, The Ford Administeation had proposed i buy of eight ~ Senate Unit Cuts F-14A Washington—Senate Armed Services Committee last week reduced the Navy/ Grumman F-44A procurement ro- ‘ram trom 44 areraft to 6 during action fn the $35:7-bision Fiseal 1978 author- Zatlon for weapons systems, Both the Ford and Carter Administra tions recommended $941 milion for the buy of 44. The Senate committee's action would reduce the Fiseal 1978 funding by $200 mation, ‘The committee also adopted language that wouts 1 Limit the Fiscal 1979 buy of F-14510 36, instead of the 60 aireratt programed by the Navy, ™ Diract thatthe iwo-year saving, esti- masted ata total $550 millon, be applied toward any shortfall in the. McDonnell DDovotas F-18 program (awast Mar. 28, 18) ‘The Navy solution to funding problems was to permit a year's sippage in the F-18 program and cancel the Lockheed -30 program in Fiscal 1979, Congressman claim the Navy wants to ancol the F-18 program Last woek the House approved the funding proposed by the Carter Adminis tration, for both the F-t8 and. F-1® programs. The Senate committes’s tr get Is fo complete action on the aulhor- zation May 6, ks (SALT) agreement with the USSR Rep. Ronald V. Dellums (D-Calit) alfered an amendment 10 eliminate $134 million for the USAF MX. advanced ballistic: missile systems and cancel the Program. But only 11 House members supported the amendment. The sther 89 The mobile MX will nly decrease U.S. security, Rep. Dellums said. “The greater accuracy of the missiles will pose constant threat to the Soviet ICBMs. thus increasing the chances of & preemptive First strike." Estimating the total MX_prograsn cost aM $40-80 billion, Rep. Dellums sue “That isa Lot of money for a weapan that hasbeen called. "an arms eontreller's nightmare. President Coster has are exprdised hy Jesire to batt i But owin stion problems it will eause, it may be too late to ban alter we have develop i Challenging Rep. Dellums, Rep. lack F Kemp (RN. ¥,) told the House “The premise upon which the {Dellums} argument is based is that the ©.S. iS Provocative and that the Soviets have not Geveloped mobile land-based n.isiles That is weong. They do have eight now 3,000. to 4,000-naut-isi range mobile $8.20. IF they combined the SS-20 with the S8-16, i gives them a mabile intercon tinental It would have hard-target capabilities. It is the SS-20 that is destabilizing, not our MX research and development prograt, SALT Flexibility “We should be giving the"Presint th Nexibilty to go into SALT 2 negotintons with the support of this Congress by. not hogether the veri tying his hands i’ this iraportant see spons program, stopping it unilaterally” Rep. Kemp said The Carter Administration rete) the $294 million propused bythe Ford Admins istration by $160 evlfion W0 the SU millon Meanwhile, the Cartor Administestion has delayed implementation of its cecision opesing outright cancellation of Min: smn 3. production, antowneed bs Secretary of Deieme Harald Brwn fer 22. This will requige the submission to Congress of a reauest ta rescind sei 1977 production funding. This request has not yet boea submitted The House authorized $325 million for Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95B00915R001000510010-7ied in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : ClA-RDP95B00915R001000510010-7 Qe Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/29 : CIA-RDP95B00915R001000510010-7