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Atom War Might

Only

Last Days

(Editor's Note: Scientists often have speculated-on-the-dread- ful fate that awaits the world on the day two-nations go to wear armed with atomic bombs In the following despatch the United Press science writer tells some of the fours scientists have, hold ever since the United States dropped the first atomic bomb, on Japan),

New York, September 25.

An atomic war might fast only a matter of days, perhaps less.

In that short time the nation which struck first might well knock out most of the other's industrial areas, killing and maining persons not by the thousands but by millions. Cities in the defeated land the atomic energy released when might not be safe for human the bomb goes of-casualty tolls habitation for a long period." would be catastrophic. There Those are some of the fears might not be enough doctors and atom bomb scientists have. nurses left for the injured. There are other who tear even

Britain To

Start Making

Atomic Bombs

~London, September-25.--- Chapman Pincher af, tha "Daily Express" who yester- day revealed an alleged description and diagram of the atom bomb; today wrote:

"Britain will soon be mak- ing atomic bombs. Produc tions are likely to be on a scale outstripping the Russula?!*** output for several years.”

Ha based his forecast on the. fact that the £7,000,000 atom plant in Wast England is. about

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RUSSIA RELYING ON COPIES OF U.S. B29

Washington, September 25.

If Russia should make an atomic attack in the near future, which U. S. strategists consider wholly unlikely, she would probably use a copy of the American B-29 Superfortress." So far as is generally known, the Soviet Air Force has not developed any other long range heavy bomber although it is reported to be far outproducing the United States in total warplanes.

Atomic

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In America

Boise, Idaho, September 25,

The Atomic Energy Commis- sion expects to have the first of three atamic. reactors completed and operating in the Arco (Idaho) area within 18 months, manager, Leonard

planer with total albame weight of nearly 70,000,000 pounds. America has not approached those the Idaho at

Designated the TC-10, the copy's performance has not been disclosed, but is presumed Ieast to match the B-29's range of 4,600 miles or more.

Russia is understood to have increased fuel capacity and thus made up for the lower efficiency of her copied engines.

figures since the war.

The indicated U.S. Air Force Johnston, said in a speech of production programme for the Idaho Engineers today. present fiscal year, which runs until next Junë 30, is about 800 The AEC operations executive fighter planes and a similar said the first would be an ex-

·number of trainer and trans- | perimental ports. :

Jet Bomber

Atomic scientists, silenced by

been reluctant to discuss how

The Soviet has been develop many atom bombs it would take

ing jet bombers but based on ex- Because medical science has to "knock out" the United States

London, September 25, not yet learned how

The to treat or Russia.

Colonial Secretary, Mr. perience in America, they are not radiation

The Navy air programme as it sickness-a sickness

However, some who have not Arthur Creech Jones, has writ likely to have achieved the range brought on by the terrife heat of been connected with the atom ten to the Governor of British needed for an attack on the con stands would provide only half as of atomic energy

tinent. 17.

many new planes as for the Air bomb projects have stated it Honduras expressing warmest

Russian plane builders are re- preciation of a resolution by the

Force: would take at least 20 ambs colons Legislative council pro- ported to have made as many jet of the power that the United claiming the malterable deter-fighters last year as America built States used on

Japantomination of the people to remain of all military types. paralyse a large segment of British. America's war industries.

POETRY GAVE A HINT

The British Government, be sid in the despatch made public No Shelters

here

today, remain willing to submit Guatemala's legal claim The United States' first two

on the colony to the International bombs, the one that obliterated Court but, in the absence of a Hiroshima and the other that decision by the Court against Moscow, September 25.

cost that the levelled Nagasaki,

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sia who read Konstantin Simo novs "New World" one of the country's leading literary jour- nais.

There have been whispered confidences, among these people for a long time. They never re- garded Mr. V. M. Molotov's November, 1947, statement on atomic bomb as idle words.

Three Times More

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breeder reactor which, he said, would constitute probably, the most significant forward step in the development

nuclear reactor .was made operate on December 2, 1942

Mr. Johnston reported that in the first year about US$6,000,000 worth of construction would be

started in the Arco area.

The Air Force programme aims at a force of about 250 3-36 bom- bers, rated the world's highest fly- Ing and longest range offensive Their total production of war-weapon. Fewer than 100 bays planes was reported at more than been built. three times that of the United About 2,000 B-29s are available States in mumbers, but indications and the faster, longer range B-50 are that they produced smaller is in production. A six-engine would planes on an average.

600 miles an hour jet bomber, the materials-testing reactor. The Soviet warplane program- Boeing B-47, is going into pro- me last year is reported to have duction. included more than 4,000 fighters bombers and attack

bombs does not run so high for the colony or part of it--Reuter. and 2,500

because

the United States now the costly ground work has been completed. Nowadays it is only a matter of production and im- proving the quality of the bombs,

As far as knocking out Russia with atom bombs, it might take more than the number needed to lay the United States prostrate. Little is known of Russia's war making industries since the end of the war.

But apart from that the July

Targets in the United States issue of the "New World" con- might well be and probably lained three significant poems by would be Washington, New York, Fugene Dolmatysky. One poem Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Chicago, dedicated to his one-year old St. Louis, Los Angeles and De- daughter told of a tremor that troit

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RUSSIANS PUTTING

there is not- a single from an explosion in Siberian | atomic bomb shelter in this coun- Taiga, thousands of

miles away. The poem said the blast blew insofar as it is known. the mountain to dust. It was "not, gunpowder nor dynamite," said the poem, but "far more power- ful stuff. I will not tell its name."

Dolmiovsky's poem

also said the explosion burned up the Taiga region. The fact that such a thing could happen "only a fairy tale," the post told his daughter, but "this has now occurred."

Was once

"A translation of this poem în

"May Copenhagen added.

the sound wave reach foreign coasts and warn our enemies who hear it there.")

Another poema discussed the threatening war clouds from the West and asked whether foreign tanks will roar over Soviet land, destroy the Hower of Soviet manhood and put off again the establishment of Communism.

UP BLUFF

Chicago, September 25. The atomic pioneer, Dr. Harold Urey, said today that Russia's announcement that it had atomic bomb secrets in 1947 Was "g blu-a date

the pulled from

hat"

The Nobel prize winner, xho helped to develop the United States atom barnb, said he dis trusted any statement coming from Russia, but believed the United States announcement of anatomie explosion in Russia.

Russia cannot sét a date for discovering the "secret" of the The poem answered that since | bomb, he said, and added, "The the Soviet Union is so strong United States does not know none will dare attack, "but when it had the secret. We just should the Wall Street madmen] continued over a four year span attack, the hour of attack will to learn about the atom bomb.” be their last hour."

However, Dr. Samuel Allison, Director of the Nuclear Studies

poem,

It concluded: "This is the at the University of Chicago, vow of a reserve officer with said that scientists never doubted his little daughter perched on that- Russia had the bomb secret {his' shoulder.**

in “1847 or even in 1945,” In the third

**Words About Tomorrow," Demestovsky described a war criminal trial in which the defendants had pos- sessed the atom bomb. A young Greek who had seen and SUT- vived the last atomic explosion prosecuted the defendants On behalf of the whole of mankind,

-United Press.

HEUSS' MESSAGE TO YOUTH

He added: 4 takes four years from finding the scoret to developing the bomb and if Russia had the secret in 1947 and exploded the bomb in re- cent weeks then Russla ap- parently moved faster than the United States."

Dr. Urey and Dr. Allison with two other University of Chicago scientists on Saturday predicted that any future atom war would last at least 10 years and wipe out all major cities involved. Dr. Urey said that Russia eventually may be able to make bomb than the United States.-- United Press,

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