H-Bomb Flash Could Kill In 40-Mile Circle
;(10 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 31. A flash from a hydrogen bomb cbuld kill people within a circle of 40 miles wide. Dr. Hans Bethe said in an article in the magazine Scientific American, published today.
Dr. Bethe, a physicist at Cornell University, was head of the theoretical physics division at the United States Atomic Energy Commission's laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico. He is credited with discovering how the sun makes hydrogen. The Scientific American said that Dr. Bethe’s article was an amended version of one in which deletions had been made at the direction of the Atomic Energy Commission.
The presses were stopped and 3000 copies containing the original article were burned.
The magazine’s editors said they had not considered any of the deleted material was secret. Cambridge Universitv scientists todav called on the British Governemnt to condemn the United States production of the hydrogen bomb and make a further attempt to obtain international control of atomic energy.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23218, 1 April 1950, Page 5
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