North Korea launches missiles in latest show of force

WASHINGTON, Up Four Atomic Energy Commissioners were lined up solidly today against a colleague's plan for a dramatic H-bomb "show of force" to impress on world leaders the urgent need for peace. The proposal, made by AEC Commissioner Thomas E. Murray in a New York speech last night, also met some outright opposition in the Senate. Murray's idea—outlined at the golden jubilee dinner of the Fordham University law school—was to call Representatives of all the nations to what he termed a meeting at the "atomic summit." Such a meeting, he said, would be held at Eniwetok in the Pacific Proving Grounds used by the AEC. There, Murray said, these leaders—particularly the Russians and Communist Chinese—should witness an H-bomb explosion in what the AEC commissioner envisioned as a "show of force, a declaration of American power and demonstration of the strategy of deterrence." Shortly after Murray's speech was released, his four AEC colleagues issued a joint statement declaring that commission tests in the Pacific have never been designed as a "show of force" but are solely for the development of weapons necessary for defense of the free world. They said the AEC several months ago formally rejected Murray's motion to invite foreign observers, including Communists, to nuclear tests in the Pacific. Murray, a holdover from the Truman administration, said in his speech that a demonstration such as he advocated would do much to "disabuse our enemies of any false estima