H-BOMB TEST “LEAKAGE”
F. 8.1. SEEKS PRESS INFORMANT (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) HONOLULU, June 18. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking the serviceman or servicemen who disclosed that the recently air-dropped hydrogen bomb missed its target, says the “Honolulu Advertiser” today. The informant also said that two servicemen were blinded by the blast. The newspaper said that the authorities consider it “imperative to find the leak on Eniwetok and plug it.” “Intelligence authorities are far more concerned with the fact that he talked at all than with the mixture of fact and scuttlebutt he dispensed,” says the paper. The Atomic Energy Commission has denied that anyone was blinded by the explosion. Mr Donald Quarles, secretary of the Air Force, said on Saturday in Washington that the H-bomb
missed its target by “somewhat less than four miles.” He added, however, that the miss “was not great enough to have a serious effect on the success of the experiment.”
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27999, 20 June 1956, Page 7
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