CANNOT BE KEPT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21840, 10 October 1945, Page 5

CANNOT BE KEPT

NEW BOMB SECRETS SCIENTIST’S WARNING FRANKNESS BEST GUARD (11 a an.) LONDON, Oct. 9. “The atomic bomb secret cannot be kept. Scientists will refuse to be used as pawns in the game of Power politics.” That was the keynote of a speech by one of Britain’s leading scientists, Professor A. V. Hill. “To suppose that atomic energy could remain a secret for long—long enough to matter—is complete moonshine,” said Professor Hill. “The only hope of decent and reasonable use of what could be a priceless gift to mankind lies in frankness. Nothing eventually breeds fear, jealousy, mistrust and insecurity so effectively as so-called security, "There can be no monopoly in the laws of Nature. There is none with the scientific knowledge involved in ihis most formidable problem of economic energy. How little is the scientists’ advice valued or taken in the use of ideas and processes which science has created? Perhaps the politicians are right in ignoring us, though I think they are wrong.”