ATOM BOMB TESTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 May 1946, Page 5

ATOM BOMB TESTS

SCIENTISTS SHOW LITTLE ENTHUSIASM “UNPREDICTABLE RESULTS” (Rec. 10 a.m.) ■ WASHINGTON, May 26. The Federation of American Scientists declared that scientists expect nothing of scientific value and little of technical value to the peacetime uses of atomic energy from the Bikini atom bomb tests. The federation, the membership of which includes many men who participated in the development of the atom bomb, declared that scientists are co-operating in the Bikini tests at the request of their country’s armed forces, although they do so with heavy hearts and not enthusiastically. The scientists seek, by education, to teach men that they must abandon atomic weapons to preserve civilsation, but say they must recognise it may take an atomic bomb to teach them the lesson. , Los Almos scientists said that the deep under-water test in 1947 will be more .important than the 1946 tests, in which one atom bomb will be exploded in mid-air and another just under the surface of the sea. They added that deep-sea bombing might have extreme and unpredictable results. ______