SECURITY BAN IMPOSED: U.S. ATOM PROJECTS
WASHINGTON, March 29.—The United States Atomic Energy Commission today disclosed that it had given new orders to everybody connected with the atomic energy programme to remain silent about the hydrogen bomb project. It had also made a similar appeal to those previously connected with the commission’s work. A security ban was applied to all technical information about so-called thermo-nuclear weapons and reactions, including non-secret information published before the commission undertook the development of the hydrogen bomb. A magazine, the New Republic, claimed today that the United States had stocks of from 200 to 300 atomic bombs. The editors of the magazine made this estimate in a technical supplement to a series of articles on international atomic control. The magazine said that published data made possible “a reasonable estimate” of the United States’ rate of atomic bomb production and the size of present American stocks. It was estimated that Russia should have at least 100 atomic bombs by the beginning of 1955.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 March 1950, Page 6
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