
A well-known meteoriticist declared today that a “shrewd opponent” could wage war against this country with intercontinental projectiles made of ice. |
By Mirror News
9-13-1955 |
The object of the ice missile would be to determine effectiveness of range for a missile of the more deadly variety.
Dr. Lincoln La Paz, director of the University of New Mexico’s Institute of Meteoritics, said an ice projectile could be shot from a plane at high altitude many miles from the United States. Moving at sufficiently high speed, it would appear from the ground much like a meteor or a shooting star.