"HUSH-HUSH" IN U.S. ON H-BOMB
(10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March SO. The United States Atomic Energy Commission yesterday disclosed it
had given new orders to everybody
connected with the atomic energy programme to remain silent about the hydrogen bomb project. It also had made a similar appeal to those previously connected with the commission’s work. The gag applied to all technical information concerning so-called thermo-nuclear weapons and reactions, including non-secret information published before the commission undertook the development of the hydrogen bomb. The mazagine New Republic claimed today that the United • States had a stockpile of 200 to 300 atomic bombs. The magazine’s editors made the estimate in a technical supplement to a series of articles on international atomic control.
The magazine said the published data made possible a “reasonable estimate" of the American atomic bomb production rate and the size of the present American stockpile. It is estimated that Russia should have at least 10(1 atomic bombs by the beginning of 1955.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23217, 31 March 1950, Page 5
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