ATOM BOMB TESTS

Grey River Argus, 16 May 1946, Page 5

ATOM BOMB TESTS

LIMITS ON INFORMATION NEW YORK, May 14. Admiral Blandy said that, while pressmen would be permitted during the atom bomb tests at Bikini to inspect the damage to the target-ships’, security regulations would not permit disclosure of the following information: (1) The exact horizontal distance the bomb explodes away from the target ships. (2) Altitude at which the bomb explodes. (3) The exact bearings and distances of the ships from each other. (4) The special equipment techniques' with which the bomb is dropped. (5) The exact pressures' and temperatures at various distances from the centre of the explosion. (6) The bomb’s degree of efficiency. He added that the number of detailed pictures, showing the bomb damage, would be limited to the target ships and would be arrayed in the form of a pinwheel.

N.Z. NOT TO BE REPRESENTED

P.A. WELLINGTON, May 15. New Zealand will not be represented at the atom bomb tests in the Pacific in July and August. Countries invited to send observers are members of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, which consists of members of the Security Council plus Canada. Australia is a member of the Security Council. A cable message from Washington published on Saturday stated that countries invited to send governmental and press observers to the tests were Britain, Russia, France, China, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Poland.