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CHAPTER
ATOMIC FIRE FOR PEACEFUL PURPOSES
UT of the welter of
O
words that have
been spoken and written about
atomic weapons, I will try
By Gordon Dean
Chairman, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1950-53
to bring some sense, in the containers, and decontami- atomic perspective of the historic nation of trende previously discussed, detergents, the following facts and con- water) clusions seem to me to be pertinent:
1. Two atomic bombs have been detonated in war. The power of these bombs has been officially disclosed. Each was equivalent to about 20,000 tons of TNT,
Donat steps in to close the £50,000 gap
by HAROLD CONWAY
THE country vicar whom I greeted at Ealing Studios looked around him contentedly and said: “My, it's good to be back. It's even better to be on the pay-roll once more."
1. assured him that cinema- gpers-1 nearly said parishioners throughout the land would endorse those sentiments.
For the clerical collar and
overcoat cume
slightly shubby
from the studio wardrobe; grey- 租 ish lints in his usually rich-
brown hair, the deep wrinkles on
checks and forehead 'were examples of the make-up man's
Behind the gentle parsonical facado was Robert Donat, onco Britain's most, popular screen aetor, beginning his first pleture for nearly three years,
Lost salary
During that interval Donat has been kept froin the studios by the 1-health which has per- sistently dogged his acting carcer. It is an interval which must have cost him £50,000, in 2cat salaries, since a star in the Donat class Can easily earn
£10
10,000 per picture.
"MY
they...
funniest performance, tell me, witl never he seen," he says. "It was my test for Hobson's Choice,' and it still makes the director, David Lean, laugh. But I got ill again just after the teal so John Mills was given the role. Ah, expect he'll be even funnier
Donat
1
offset that £00,000 loks
his can put
month's
salary of
redlo
engagement at the Old Vic last year at the top Vie
£49 a week; plus lew
recording If and
performances Also, of course, he is one high ranking star who has not been piling up arrears of surtax,
atomic fuel. uranium-235, burned in a nuclear way, will release 2.600,000 times the amount of heat produced from burning a pound of coal. This of course, is the great appeal of
tomic power, and the OOR single Det that makes the
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Extra appeal
ROBERT DONAT
"A gentle, personical facade."
For Your Ochchi Chiornive
From
CHAPMAN PINCHER
ATOM-CHEAT
NEW treatment for black A
eyes is outmoding the raw- beefsteak method. An injection of a colourless liquid into the skin rapidly disperses the dam.
which blood
gives a aged bruised eye Its colour.
black cya The "lovellest" weapon strength. In
Starting again at 49 (his should now be cleared up in with my opinion, this has been sum surfaces
birthday
comes next month), 24 hours, doctors claim. The elent to deter them from any whole difficult game worth the
Donat retains that little extra Injection contains
a powerful and full-scale aggression which they gamble. Aоups
appeal-half-whimsical, hall- substance called hyaluronidase, may have planned for the con- tinents of Europe and Asia. It 2. Whereas, for all practical wistful-which the other British which, speeds the movement of
fluids in the tissues, would
COO 4. Of the atomic detonations follows that if we wou
purposes, a chemical fire can actors have not got.
In his must re-
plcture, come-back
The fact that only a doctor to deter them we since World War II to which
main strong. It does not follow, exist only in an atmosphere in called "Lease of Life," Donat is can give the injection is a dis- including main
oxygen is present, nplaying- with red haired advantage compared with the unofficial observers,
however, that we need match which the press, the twenty to one, or ten to one, nuclear fire can exist only in Adrienne Corri for his lively steak method, but nowadays it is representatives of
have or even one to one, in atomic atmosphere made up of daughter a Yorkshire village cheaper to go to the doctor then have been admitted, › all
energy range of bombs forever-certainly not if billions of the incredibly small, parson who is under a doctor's waste the steak.
Given tho been in the from 75 percent of the force of deterrence is our primary ob- Invisible atomie fragments called sentence of death.
chance of preaching a sermon in about fective, as indeed it should be. the Hiroshima blast to
neutrons. A nuclear fire, there-the cathedral of a nearby city,
But fore, "feeds" on neutrons.
he throws double that force. This, then, 10
away his notes on the power range with which the 2. The effects of these world is most famillur.
neutrons not only cause atoms to Impulse-and startles the con- The
with a lusty philo- THE latest atom-smashing.
machine has ission; they themselves are pro-gregation
surprised. bombs, which were
de- U.S. Government, however, has
duced by the fission process.sophy of life,
selcntists by yielding far more The sermon possesses tonated in the air above the announced that it
hits the front | energy than It should. So it has Simply staying "ahead" of Thus o nuclear fire itself creates
papers; been named the swindletron, target, are well known. Of bomba many times more power-
World the Russkins, or even "far the means by which it is pro- pages of the national ful than those used in
the vicarage becomes a scandal the casunities, most were war II. '
ahend" of them, is not the goal. Pagated.
centre. Perhaps we might sub- The weapons such secondary
Reverend The fire is controlled, there- title this film "The effects as flying debris and 6. It is well known that the United States should be a sizable fore, by controlling the number Mr Chips."
a stockpile, no matter what the
1x0 induced fires, as has been United States is developing
de Russian stockpile may be. De- variety of atomic weapons the case in all other high- med to meet a wide range of terrence is accomplished when a explosive bombing attacks.
The target situations.
US sizable number is reached, for Government has said that we "sizable" means
point These effects
be are working towards the day where an enemy, calculating the
Flak
of retaliation, says to him minimised by civil defence when we will have atomle wea-
as complete a self: "No pons in almost
matter how many measures. Of the direct variety as we have conventional atomic bombs I may be able to effects of the. bombs, the ones.
that is, in the form of deliver on the cities and on the most important, from the artillery shells, guided missiles, Industrial and military targets targa of the United States and its very standpoint of casualties, naval was heat, next blast, last bombs for use against big tar alles, I simply cannot afford radiation. All these can gets, and smaller bomba for use to take the punishment which
against smaller targets.
retaliation would bring."
due to
can
be
minimised by effective civil defence measures, including particularly the deployment
target area.
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It is known that the other effect of an atomic attack, the deposition of radio active dust particles, was not very Important at either Hiroshima or Naga- ynki. The towns were re- occupied shortly after the attacks without harm to those returning..
Lethal Effect
weapons,
Two Tests
Weapons Goal
goal for the
that
of neutrons it has access to, much, as one
Shall we see Mr Donat, our can control it, moet golden-volcod actor, back Neutrons are so important to on the London stage this year? atomic energy that some people He doubts it: the
important cnII the programme
the thing for him is to catch up with the kind of money only neutron business."
film studios can pay.
Thick Shield
►
ONE FOR THE ROAD
NEW tests for suspected drunkenness in drivers may be adopted by the police follow- ing a year's work by a panel of leading chemical analysts.
The panel, headed by Dr D.
W. Kent-Jones, was set up at the
West
In on adjoining sct Ealing was Donat's
actress wife, Rence Asherson, whom he married last year. She is film ing by day, acting in End theatre by night.
"Yes, I've put the missus out to work in a big way," says Mr Donat cheerfully. "I
at
request of the British Medical Association, which is The
to issue a report on Recognition of Intoxication."
It recommends that two tests Involving analysis of blood taken from suspected drivers should be officially adopted by
can't laboratories throughout B2
3. A nuclear fire, unlike chemical fire, is invisible. In hurning, it creates large amounts of invisible nuclear radiations,
to humans and political leaders no doubt made
takes all my time to memorise to certain types
it this calculation several times in
materials. For this reason, as we my own lines after this lack of the days prior to 1949, that 18.
practice. But the main thing nuclear fire must before they had any bombs, and have seen,
The Rusalan military and nur to X-rays, which are remember the name of her Alm:
of
Such tests might detect "rub-intoxiented". driver who is saber enough to walk chalk lines and say tongue-twisters but in
6. It has been announced Moncluded that they could not be surrounded by a thick shield is that she brings home a wage still too much under the
two tests in connection that
take the retaliation which all-out of lead or concrete or water to packet, too, each Friday night, fluence of alcohol to drive enfe- with the development H-bomb have been held,
of the Lion would bring upon seal in this dangerous radio-It's wonderful." activity.
and
that progress has been sufficient them. In the days since then, for the U.S. Government to say with a few bombs, they have that "we have entered another obviously reached the sime con- stage in the world-shaking clusion. development of atomic energy.”
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In addition, the ashes left over from a nuclear fire remain "hot" in radioactive sense for very long periods of time and must therefore be handled with the utmost care,
Probably the most widely dis- 7. Soviet Russia, our hostile cursed subject in atomic energy, competitor, is also in the bust after "the bomb," is something ness of manufacturing atomic we have come to call "atomic The words atomic weapons, and has been since power." 1949. This does constitute a power, when used in connection
with the peaceful utliisation of threat. Although wo ohylously hold a substantial lead over the the atom, generally mean but Soviets, this is hardly an effec- one thing heat. Most of the tive means of preventing them energy released in a controlled enough nuclear chain reaction appears accumulating
by a knock-out in the form of heat, just as the and bombs to deliver
blow against us.
energy in, say, a coal fire, which is a chemical chain reaction,
3. It has been learned from from. postwar teata calculations that the area
an
Differences
of damage resulting from 8. Taking world progress in also appears in this form,
A-tomb explosion is atomic weapons manufacttire substantially reduced in the t is no longer realistic to think and development into account, case of underground or of such weapons as something under water detonations, so rare and expensive that they and that the lethal effect pended one at a time, or that tirely correct to describe a co
will necessarily have to be
In a sense, it would be en- or residual radioactivity is their explosive power will boar trolled nuclear chain reaction as substantially increased. some fixed relationship to the e nuclear."fire" in which, atomic bombs we have known in the afael (called fissionable ma- Total casualties might be past Alomic weapons are the terials) ere "burned" (fissioned)
palate weapons, whether the greater or smaller de target is a supply dump, a ro to produce heat for useful pur pending upon
powe. As in the case of શ number giment, or a whole nation.
chemical fire, "shes" (called of factors, such as dis
fission products) are left over. position of the population, our defences, therefore, Includ
The only realistic Wad
way to plan after the nuclear fire has been location of the detonation, ing civil defence Is to assume extinguished wind direction, size of the that atomic weapons, I used Although a nuclear fire re- effect of residual radio- against us at all, will be used bomb and so on."
in sufficient quantity and Bixbombes a chefnical fire in that The r
to destroy thoroughly whatever heat, is produced and nahes ter activity, however, like the target they are aimed at The main, that le shout the end of 'other. effcctaj can be chocts would probably be of the similarity an Furthermore, number of striking minimised by effective civil the same type as those resulting there are
from the bluste at: Hiroshima differences: defence mensurés (such as and Normal, but the degres
removal of contami- mightywall, be variydin anbeking clothing), consump, NIMEOR
(Copyright by Gordon Dean) (Tomorrow: What has been done already and some of the san- sational things may be accomplished atómic power).
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