SCIENTIST WARNS OF DANGER OF ATOMIC DEADLOCK

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1950, Page 5

SCIENTIST WARNS OF DANGER OF ATOMIC DEADLOCK

LONDON, June 12 (Rec. 11.30 a.m.). —The United Press Copenhagen- correspondent ■ says that Mr Niels Bohr, a famous Danish nuclear scientist who helped _ produce the atomic bombs ■ which devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, today released an open letter to the United Nations calling for a free exchange of scientific information so as to break the atomic control deadlock between East and West. Mr Bohr stressed in his letter that a radical adjustment of international relationships is vital if civilisation is to surviv,e. ' He said: “Recent progress of science has created a means of extinguishing life on a terrifying scale, which implies a grave menace to civilisation unless universal confidence and responsibility can be firmly established. The situation calls for a most unprejudiced attitude towards all questions of international relations.” ■ _ , . _ . Mr Bohr, who won a Nobel Prize in 1922 for his research into the atom, emphasised that he was making the letter public entirely on his own responsibility and without consultations with the Government of any country.