‘ATOM CURTAIN DOWN”
Soviet Reveals Its A-Bomb Secrets
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) GENEVA, August 11. Russia today gave the world’s top atom experts a mass of hitherto top secret data on Soviet nuclear experiments. They sprang a surprise on delegates from 72 countries at the atoms for peace conference in Geneva by tabling detailed measurements from their experiments in atomic fission—the heart of an atomic explosion—facts which so far have been eleaked m the strictest secrecy by both East and West. Never before had such a wealth of detail in such exact terms been collated and exchanged by the world’s leading scientists. Russia gai a a long list of highly technical data and measurements which, in the main, complemented those made in the West. A M estern delegate said after the morning session of the conference: “’The atomic curtain in fundamental physics is now completely down between East and West.”
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27736, 13 August 1955, Page 7
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