NUCLEAR BOMB
Indonesian Project GV.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) DJAKARTA, Feb. 2. A top-ranking Indonesian Army officer said today about 200 scientists are working on Indonesia’s first atomic bomb. Brigadier General Hartono, the director of the army arsenal, promised a “surprise” relating to the project at the armed forces day celebration in October. Last December he said Indonesia would explode its first atomic bomb in 1965. He also said Indonesia this year would produce guided missiles “whose damaging abilities are superior to that of other countries.” Indonesia has an .atomic reactor in Banund, west Java, which was built with American aid. Another reactor is under construction with Soviet aid at Serpong, south-west of Djakarta. Both reactors are said to be for peaceful uses. In Tokyo the Japanese Foreign Ministry said the Indonesian Foreign Minister, Dr. Subandrio, was coming to Japan soon at his own initiative, not at the invitation of the Japanese Government
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30666, 4 February 1965, Page 15
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