HYDROGEN BOMB
MAGAZINE ARTICLE . BY SCIENTIST
DELETIONS MADE BY AUTHORITIES
(Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 2. The flash from a hydrogen bomb could kill people within a circle 40 miles wide, said Dr. Hans Bethe in ah article in the magazine “Scientific American’’ published to-day. Dr. Bethe, a physicist at Cornell University, was head of the Theoretical Physics* pivisidn at the United States Atomic Energy Commission’s laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
He is credited with discovering how the sun makes hydrogen. The “Scientific American” said that Dr. Bethe’s article was an amended version of one in which deletions had been made at the direction of the Atomic Energy Commission. The presses were stopped and 3000 copies containing the original article were burned.
The magazine’s editors said that they had not considered that any of the deleted material was secret.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26078, 3 April 1950, Page 7
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