HOTTER THAN SUN'S CORE
_ *c» ■ CENTRE OF ATOMIC EXPLOSION, (llec. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON* Aug. 20 The centre of the atomic bomb explosions was very much like the sun's core, but if anything hotter, said Professor Nevill Mott, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Bristol University. Each bomb probably cost several million pounds and the high cost was the chief difficulty in the way ■ ot harnessing atomic energy to industry. It was at present not an easy alternative to coal,, petrol and other existing "professor Mott added that the development of big cities might have to stop in view of the discovery ot the atomic bomb becau.- they were too vulnerable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 224, 21 August 1945, Page 5
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