Soviet Atomic Research
“Professor Otto Hahn, the first man to split the uranium atom, and once Hitler’s leading atom scientist, said he did not believe that Russia had yet produced an atom bomb,” says the Bei - un correspondent of the, Associated Press. “The Russians could not make one in such a short time,” said Professor Hahn, who won the Nobel Prize m 1944 for his pioneer work in uranium fission. Russia might have built a uranium pile, but she could not have secured enough plutonium to make a bomb. “Professor Hahn scoffed at a report quoting Dr Warner Heisenberg, another German atomic scientist, as saying that he was' almost certain Russia was making atomic bombs and might have produced a death ray.”— London, March 11.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 March 1949, Page 6
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