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H-BOMB PRODUCTION WITHIN NEXT YEAR? Experts' prediction of the first test

WEAPON

NAMED "HELL-BOMB"

WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 2. WHILE PRESS SPECULATION PERSISTS AS TO WHETHER THE UNITED STATES HAS ALREADY MADE A HYDRO. GEN BOMB, ATOMIC EXPERTS, ASSUMING THE BOMB HAS NOT BEEN MADE TODAY PREDICTES TILAK THE U.S. WILL PRODUCE AND TEST ITS FIRST SUPER-BOMB (ALREADY BEING CALLED THE "TRITON" OR THE "HELL-BOMB") WITHIN THE YEAR

Officials said, however, that the new weapon will not be ready for proving at the new atomic tests this spring at Eniwetok island, in the Pacific, but they assert that the U.S. is far ahead of Russia in the atomic arms

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1910:

Collapse: talks on

of

alem control

Lake Success, February 1.

con-

- Five of the six powers apk- d by the United Nationa General Assembly to tinup negotiations for Inter. malignal atomic control have formally notified the United Nationa that the Russian boy.

has caused the collapse of the exploratory talks.

In a letter to the Secretary- General of the United Na ilone, Mr.

Mr. Trygve Lie, the five pountries Britain, the United States, France, China and Canada declared:

"So long as the Soviet Government refuse to parti. cipate in those consultations, It is impossible to achieve the primary purpose of the mandate given by the Gen. cral Assembly."-Reuter.

Anamna

RUSSIA WANTS HIROHITO TO STAND TRIAL

Washington, February 1. Russia today demanded that Emperor Hirohito of Japan bo tried as a war criminal on charges involving bacteriological warfare,

The demand was made in a note delivered to the Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, by the Soviet Ambassador, Alexander S. Panyushkin. The Soviets are also distributing the note to the other members of the 13-nation For East- urn Commission. That is the policy-making body for the Japanese occupation.

The note, which has yet to a war criminal will find little be made public, is reported to sympathy or support from Ame-

riend ofeinis. ask for war crimen trials ol four other Japanese in addition by his Press Omeer, Alexander

---Mr. Panyushkin, accompanied Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Former head of the Los Alamos to Hirohito. Their names west 1. Zinchuk, went into bir. Achd- hopenique laboratory and now not immediately, made known, Lenne man not pred even "eftirman of the Aldmit Encry

**Linkvärisiunichi Warfare Varged "minulés later to meet waiting re- general Commission's

advisory grew out of the recent Russian porters. Through Mr. Zinchuk as | commilice.

trial at Khabarovsk, I which 12 an interpreter he said he Among the AEC members. Mr. Japanese Army officers were con- handed a note to Mr. Acheson on Lewis L. Strauss and Mr. Gordonvicted of having used bacterio- the question of 12 Japanese Wor Dean urged production of the logical polsons in China and, ex-feriminals who wore Iried In H-bomb without delay and with- perlinentally, Russian 0.10 Khabarovsk by a Soviet court-

hod

out reservations. Commissioners American priconers of war, B-Associated Press and United Press. Sumner T. Pika und H. D. Smyth cording to useim reports at the thought that perhaps 让 new time,

effort should first be made to While the precise nature of the come 10 an agreement with Soviet charges gst Hobita Iussia,

was not brought out, panding re- Newspaper writers say the possible explosive power of the now bomb is

The committee was assured the lease of the note, the indication bomb would by nothing like theoretically almost without limit, while physicists state the first "grude”·

us from partons familiar with expensive as the original war- hell-bomb will be two to 10 times as powerful as today's boat plu-

time atom bomb, It is under-contents is that the Soviets are trying to fasten responsibility or tonium bomb, itself the equivalent of nearly 200,000 tons of TNT. stood that for the time being at

lasst the project will be carried hoito and the four other Ja- panese for the alleged crimes of Hydrogen, deutériuno and tritius, Atomic Energy Act, if necessary, on within the present project and which the Japanese officers were Birt the power of loters "refined" models will be limited were named in the United States to re-establish the wartime part within its budgetary limitations convicted at Khabarovsk.

which produced the though it may be necessary to ask said, by the Atomic Energy Comminaion': re-nership thev pacity of the planes or na port yesterday as understand try Commission Prestations later. The whole siles built

The Atomic Energy propriations them. Investigation for atomie energy. to deliver

of chairman, Mr. David Lilienthal, atomic budget for 1951 is about Bomba of the future could con- {double weight. It is used to make refused to say anything about the $800,000,000, ceivably "Try" the largest city heavy Water. Deuterium hus cominission's new responsibilities, on earth in a matter of seconds. boen mentioned more than Buy Any further Information munt It is really the triton bomb, the other form of hydraten in not come from the White House, he "New York Times" science Poltor jetal discussion of bomb possibili said. said, because the baste explosive (lies,

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CANADA'S GERM WAR RESEARCH

Ottawa, February 2. Canada's hush-hush

Mr. Panyushkin did not get an | bacteriological and chemical instant reply from Mr. Acheson warfare project at Suffield, during the seven mintites he was Alberta, is being expanded. In the Secretary's office. Slato

The largest station of its kind No one is sure what the few

incal experts. sel to work: tramlating the Kremlin message

In the Commonwealth and possi- bomb will bo like. An authority tra

bly In the world, research is 10- on nuclear reactions, who helped from Russian into English and ing ahead at Suffield on wapens develop the atom bomb used at said that the document will have which many scientists regard as Hiroshima and Nagasaki, said to be studied carefully before a potentially more decisivo than the element in the hydrogen bond is In bombs made of any of the

would be essentially a fire and reply is nade,

atomic bomb-weapons which However, ether officials sold could destroy populations without tritium-un hydrogen isotope of three forms of hydrogen, as des-

blust

weapon. The Atomic Mass 3, with 1,000 tunes feribed to date, the atoms would

Defence Secretury, Mr.

Heavy

the demand will be rejected. razing cities. hydrogen, probably the explosive power of the original (not split but fuse,

Authoritativa tources called the -If real hydro- | Louis Johnson, said only that the prekod in a plutonium bomb in

The station was found by the gen bombes are made then alninst President's statement speaks for the form of lithium detouride, Hiroshima atom bomb.

step a

and dangerous British War Ofce carly in World A triton is the nucleus of tri-any one can make this "Assion- itself. But it no secret

πονά the would set off chain reaction by

War II to carry out experiments Burn, composed of one proton and able material." 1 does not re-military was delighted with the the H-bomb's 100,000,000 degrees, Just propaganda with poison gases. Since then, two neutrons and must be do [quire mich insney.

IS not prospect of getting a new and

would liberate less

it has been taken over by C tonated--unlike the Uranium-235 difficult. Some large industries more powerful weapon.

In the he said.

many British or plutonium filler of the present make hydrogen, but many smail weeks of subrosa debote

which bomb.

ones produce their own hydrogen preceded Mr. Truman's order in bomb and would create practically calate that the Soviet move was anda, although

Sumeld has had almost no and laboratories often make their military had mobilised most Con- ne radio-active by-products com- pupanda surve two Communist us in on the staff.

parable to P.bomb's fission pro- 1. To distract attention in Ja- publicity. Security measures gressmon in key positions behind ducts. But it would guarantee pan from repeated insistent doere are even more strict than t the H-bomb project.

an all-destroying fire storm in ads made by General Douglastre at Chalk River, Ontario.

Canada's atomic research cen- Offletul sources said: Omeials familiar with nuclear

addition The cost of the H-bomb any city it hit in

10 | MacArthur, ns Allled Occupation Dut the curtain was lifted developments elsewhere said that

slightly in

unusual Mr. Truman's order that the project will be low, The Atomic direct devastation by blust.

,អ៊ homb production be carried farto the engineering phase

Energy Commission brought it up

As one physicist described it Chief, ond by the American Goy

ernment for return to Japan of

the De- wanted" notice issued "This bomb would be a blast several hundred thousand before

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which The "New York Timos" science ward came in time to assure asking the Preijdent to approve and heat killer.

United States of atomle super the production phase.

After the first panese war prisoners believed to

operates the Suffleld station, The oditor

said that sclantists

No

pressure wave had gone out, the have been taken by the. Russians Board has issued a call for Kelen- new agreed that it not yet possiblemacy, for the present at least,

plants will be needed to make

whole area would be heated up. at the end of World War II. the

tists willing to devote themselves to make the new weapon as But they emphasise that Russla

new-bomb. The

Warm ale would start rising and primary

2. To try to put the knows the selentide theory -

fot to evolving new techniques And

creating powerful

olgantic chimney States in the position of keeping making war-particularly as this. The present volvert it the 11-bomb and can beaterials-heavy hydrogen jimit is rogarded us being about 10

the Emperor from being tried as techniques for the times the power of the existing expected to go all out to catch light metal lithium are plentiful and cheap. Sclontists said the

a war criminal and use it 19 Canada. bomb with a possible future limit up.

President Truman's order id, cost should be kept within $10,- of 100 times.

000,000 and $100,000,000. A meni- Tritium is scarce-It exists in in effect, that the Atomic Energber of the congressional atomic amounts, Commission must now inke. The committec put the ceiling at synthetically in hydrogen bomils oft the drawing $200,000,000. It cost $2,000,000 possible to test the hydrogen yet to be worked out, the United ·

even times as to would generate

seven times as inuch energy for a given weight as the present atom bomb. Its explosive power would cover an area of about 40 square miles compared with the four square miles of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki,

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put

to develop the

super-bomb without harm to any-States has followed the polley of

Are needed in the fields of engineering at the commission' atom bomb.

distinction betweeri Já- guided missiles, Arctic warfare, making Presidential bomb production

when The "trial run”,

it la pan's military Itaders and the radar and related solenode. Sandin, New Mexico. Sandia means the AEC is to go ahead made, would have to be carried | Emperor in

far os criminal Basle requirement for appli- rapidly in 11-bomb development

or British citizens. near the atomic weapons testing the war is concerned.

They should present project. Manufacture of hydrogen changed from theory into fact.

The commission Truman's will continue to speed the pro-

grounds at Eniwelok.

The American Government de- have at least a University 1.Disclosures in the latest | brief order was, for the mos!

The first H-bomb will possibly folded about the time Japan sur-nours degree, but "higher sende. report presented to Congrese yes- part, favourable, it was in two duction of uranium and plutonium be two to 10 times more power-rendered to leave the Emperor us mie qualification is much pre- report Preat the Atomic Energy parts. He could not have done bomb-which will serve as "trigeful thats the best plutonium bomb.

1 symbol of Japanese unity and ferred," Commission is experimenting on otherwise-Russin might get the Bers" of the H-bomb-and will

Even no, it will be possible, ex- to effect the democratisation of Particularly valuable are quali- three kinds of hydrogen, one of new bomb first. The H-bomb is push its multi-million project them being a heavier form of the most frightful engine of disharness uranium and plutonium perts say, for a plane to drop it Japan in largo part through him. les "such as inventiveness, na

In a test and make a safa getaway;

gination, ingenuity, flexibility, "More criminals" and aster ever conceived-men must energy, for driving ships hydrogen.

Another way to test it would

humour and patience." 2.That the Federal Govern-strive harder for atomic controls producing power. Unilke fission be to place it in

somo ronale Indieptions at the Stajb De- Salaries offeredi range from energy, H-energy could not bet ment could take over under the and peace:

uninhabited arca and detonate it partment are, therefore, that the $2,7000 (about £900) to $10,000 Atomic Energy Act the making of Representative Henry Jack controlled for peacetime uses.

by remote control. That was the Rusalan move to try Hirahito ás (about £3,356) a year. Reuter, atomic a fair-sized Industry

The new weapon, how. hydrogen.

committea son of the

ever powerful it becomes, will tested in New Mexico.

way the Arst atomic bomb was in the United States.

said the United States, British

not "burn" up atmosphere and The United States is now and Canadian atom bomb part-

Though theoretically upward of must making close on 3,000 million

oceans. be norship of wartime

'It will not turn into a

more 20,000 timer

destructive star. Nor will it produce restored, it is well known, ha cuble fort of hydrogen monthly. Current reports indicate that sold, that the British not wor lingering radio-active "palzon" than any atom bomb so far ex- ploded, the hydrogen bomb would the bombs.may not be made of ried by production

that was the trademark of the be unlikely to produce the lin- problems. ordinary hydrogen and all tha

plutanium bamb exploded un- der water in 1940 in the atom blast over Hiroshima in 1845.

gering radioactivity caused by the reports say that it will take an atom bomb.to set off the hydro-

bomb testaat. Dikini......... gen bomb,

Russia is using the pooled But the possibility of using knowledge of her own and that ordinary hydrogen cannot be ruled of German scientista, and the out. All that can be said is that United States must use the pool before scarcey WRS Imposed cd knowledge of the West, scientists chici not know any said. method to produce a chain reac- Representative Jackson ilon in ordinary hydrogen.

propose an amendment

had forged ahead of the United Staten ins some theoreticat fields,

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That statement was made in Vienna today by Dr. Hans Thir ing, Austrian physicist who pub- Every technical expert who fished Information about the testified about the H-bomb before principles of a hydrogen-lithium he the Congressional atomic com-bomb in Vienna as early as 1046, milice said it is feasible. Among only a year after the atom bomb

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the the H-bomb is practicable was (Continued On Page 8)

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