ATOM RESEARCH IN U.S.

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26672, 5 March 1952, Page 7

ATOM RESEARCH IN U.S.

Quest For Peace-Time Uses (Rec 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 3. Mr Gordon Dean, chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, said in Detroit to-day that the perfection of the hydrogen bomb Would help release fissionable Materials for peace-time uses. "If explosive energy can be derived from the fission of hydrogen, then the corresponding quantity of plutonium #nd uranium—the principal ingredients of the atomic bomb—would be freed for such peace-time uses as the production of power.” Mr Dean said that it was the one “clear break” that atomic power development would get because of the International situationThe three principal objectives of the Cisent American atomic planning, he d, were: (1) To make bigger the stockpile of fissionable materials, mostly for peacetime uses. (2) To develop the hydrogen bomb(3) To develop ways by which the latent power that exists in the United States stockpile of fissionable materials Can be translated into tqrms of maxi’ plum military usefulness. "This means the development of new Weapons and better and more efficient types of weapons, and methods of Manufacturing them, and it explains why we have been having so many Weapon tests in Enjwetok and Nevada and why there has been such a great atmosphere of urgency about them, Mid Mr Dean.