ATOMIC BOMB SECRET
U.S. GOVERNMENT PATENT NEW YORK, Feb. 12. Captain R. A. Lavender, patent adviser to the atomic bomb organisation, told the Senate Atomic Energy Committee that the bomb secret was. contained in a Government patent hidden in a special safe in the Patents Office. He added that before America began making the bomb, several requests for atomic energy patents were filed by applicants, including foreigners. The Government filed the patent to protect absolutely the ownership of the bomb secret. The State Governor of Washington, Mr. Wallgren, said that if atom bomb tests were going to harm the salmon industry in Washington and Alaska they should be called off, because a 60,000,000 dollar industry was more important, to the nation than any tests. The Government announced that fisheries experts were making a survey before the bomb tests to find how the explosions would affect fish life.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21946, 14 February 1946, Page 3
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