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Russia Has Secret
Of Atomic Bom!)
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35,000,000 people.
There was no official hint as to
how the United States obtained its
evidence of the atomic explosion
in Russia.
But it is known that American
scientists have been ready with
delicate instruments for months to
record an atomic explosion any
where in the world.
The President’s disclosure came
at a time that British, Canadian
and American experts are discuss
ing problems of the interchange
of atomic information and the sup
ply of uranium available to them.
Uranium is the key element in
making atomic bombs.
The most recent official estim
*ate of when Russia might be able
to produce atomic weapons came
from President Truman’s air pol
icy commission.
That group, headed by Thomas
K. Finletter, reported on Dec. 30,
1947, “It would be safe to assume
. . . that possibly hostile powers
will not be producing atomic wea
pons in substantial quantities be
fore the end of 1952.”
The commission added:
“We point out that this does not
assume that such powers may not
have a few atomic weapons prior
to that date.”
Last March 22 Dr. David Brad
ley, atomic medical scientist, said
Russia not only has the atomic
bomb secret but “may already be
manufacturing atomic weapons.”
Bradley, author of the book “No
place to Hide,” a report on the
1948 Bikini atomic tests, said the
belief that the United States has
a monopoly of atomic knowledge
is one of the “four fatal delusions”
wh ch leave Americans unready
f for a possible atomic war.
Bradley listed the “four delu
sions” as:
1. “The myth of the ‘secret’—
th idea that we possess and can
keep the secret of making atomic
bombs.”
2. The delusion of “industrial 1
know-how.”
• This is at best a very tempor
ary advantage. Anyone who can j
make (an atomic) pile can make
plutonium. An industrialized Rus
shi, aided by captured German j
scientists, may already be manu- i
facturing atomic weapons.”
3. The delusion that atomic wea- j
pons are absolute weapons. “They
are not. They have clear limita
tions and obvious strategic and
tactical uses.”
4. “The last equally absurd,
equally dangerous delusion is the
current effort to play down the
bomb—that atomic weapons are
really of no great account.”
Bradley was addressing the U.
S. conference of mayors here.
On the point of whether the ex
plosion means the Russians have
the atomic bomb, one military
man, unwilling to be quoted by
name, said: “If you had an explo
sion, you had to have something
that exploded—call it a bomb, a
test or whatever you want.”
A somewhat similar view was
J expressed in Chicago by Eugene
Rabinowitch, editor of the Bulle
tin of the Atonic Scientists.
A military man in Washington
| said that the Russians probably
i are at the'Los Alamos stage.
He was referring to the date of
July 16, 1945, when the U. S. test
atomic bomb was exploded in the
New Mexico desert.
That was three weeks prior to
dropping the first atomic bomb on
Japan.
The impact of the news was
certain to be felt around the world
and to have major international
political repercussions.
In the recent years of the “cold
war” between East and West,
some high world figures have
taken the view that American pos
session of the a-bomb was the ma
jor reason why the Soviets had not
been even more aggressive than
they have been.
Charles Ross, Presidntial prss
1 secretary, indicated that Mr. Tru
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man had no immediate plans for
any elaboration on the bare an
nouncement.
Among the cullers at the White
House after the cabinet meeting
was Gen. J. Lawton Collins, army j
chief of staff, and Brig. Gen.
Frank L. Howley, former com
mandant of the U. S. sector in Ber- .
lin.
Atomic energy commission offi
cials met with the Senate-House
atomic committee at teh Capitol.
After the session, Senator Mc
Mahon said: “There is no question
in my mind but that a man-made
atomic explosion has occurred in
the U.S.S.R.”
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, chair
man of the A EC’s advisory board
and one of those who played a big
part in developing the U. S. atom
ic bomb, toud reporters:
“I am very glad we know the
facts.”
CHICAGO, </P)—'The editor of
| the Bulletin of the Atomic Scien
' tists said today that if there was
I an atomic explosion in the U.S.S.R.
| "That explosion was caused by an
j atomic bomb.”
President Truman, in a state
ment issued in Washington, said
| “We have evidence that within
recent weeks an atomic explosion
occurred in the U.S.S.R.”
Eugene Radinowitch, Bulletin
j editor, said no atomic explosion
can be made on a small sacle. Any
explosion would have to be of a
magnitude o fthe atomic bomb the
U. S. used on Japan, he added.
The reason, he added, is that a
1 certain critical amount of enrich
ed uranium or plutonium must be
assembled before it will explode.
When that critical amount is ob
tained. it is. in effect an atomic
bomb.
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Fog Stops Opening
New Coast Guard
Headquarters
SEATTLE I/P)—Bad flying wea
ther prevented today the sched
uled re-establishment of the 17th
coast guard district headquarters
in Alaska.
I Capt. N. S. Haugen, chief of
staff for the new district, was to
i fly north to open officially the
new headquarters in Juneau. But
a heavy morning fog interfered.
Captain Haugen is acting com
mander of the new district. It has
been functioning with Seattle
headquarters since its recent re
activation.
The coast guard will occupy the
second and third floors of the new
community office building in Jun
eau. An advance detachment of
coast guard officers and men left
; for Juneau Sept. 3.
The rest of the personnel as
signed to the headquarters will
leave tomorrow on the S. S. Aleu
tian.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
OF FINAL ACCOUNT
AND CLOSING OF THE ESTATE |
Notice is hereby given that A. R.
Ferguson .executor of the Estate
of Warren J. Ferguson, Deceased,
has filed with the Probate Court,
Noatok-Kobuk Precinct, Second
Division of Alaska, his Final Ac
count in said Estate and that No
vember Eighth, 1919, at 3:00 p.m.,
in the Post Office Building at Kot
?obue, Alaska, has been fixed as
the time and place for hearing and i
settlement of said Final Account,'
and petition to close the estate, at i
which time and place any person
interested therein may appear and
file objections thereto and contest
the same.
Dated September 5. 1949.
A. R. FERGUSON,
Executor. '
Pub. Sept. 9, 16. 23, 30, 1949.
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