U.S. NUCLEAR DEFENCE INADEQUATE

NEW YORK, Oct 9 (Reuter): The United States cannot adequately protect itself against a future nuclear attack from China and certainly not against any nuclear onslaught by the Soviet Union, a group of experts said today. But they differed on whether it would be worthwhile to build a costly anti-missile defence system. Mr. Albert Wohlstetter, an official of the Ran Corporation which carried out a nuclear defence study for the U.S. Government, urged creation of such a system to fend off any possible attack from China. “I think it would be a vast change in the strategic position of the United States if it permitted itself to be vulnerable to any small power that had ballistic missiles which it could sue irresponsibly”, he said.