Bomb Test On Monday

Northern Advocate, 26 June 1946, Page 5

Bomb Test On Monday

(Rec. 1.25 p.m.) PARIS. June 25. The atomic bomb test at Bikini, in the Marshalls, threatened the safety of the world planet, declared the French aviation expert. M. Pelterie. addressing the Academy of Sciences.

He added that submarine tests should be forbidden until a proper test of the effect of atomic energy under water had been carried out at the bottom of a Continental lake.

The first test atom bomb will be dropped at about midday on Monday, according to present arrangements. Unsuitable weather may delay the test for some days. The joint task force is prepared to wait nearly three weeks if necessary to get proper conditions. The test with the second bomb, which is to be exploded under water, will take place some time in August. SHIPS WARNED Admiral Blandy told reporters aboard the flagship Mount McKinley that routing notices had been issued warning all ships to stay out of Bikini area because of atomic bomb test dangers.

"If any ship interferes, we will use force if necessary," he said.

Asked if Bikini and other islands belonged to the United States, Admiral Blandy replied: "Yes; at least at present."

A correspondent of the Associated Press aboard the Press ship, Appalachian, says the United States Army's new 40001 b bomb which was perfected too late feyr use in the war. will be exposed to atomic blast at Bikini on July 1, to determine whether atomic heat and shock will explode it. The bomb will carry a charge of explosive. but no fuse, thus simulating conditions of an ammunition dump. RUSSIAN, U S. PLANS The Security Council’s atomic energy commission today continued discussion on the Russian and American plans’ to control atomic energy. Dr Parodi declared that the separate plans submitted by the two most powerful nations in the world, and upon whose accord the peace of the world depended, did not appear irreconcilable.

France considered that the best method would be to establish a single working committee comprising one delegate from each nation, assisted by international experts. Its task would be to study and decide methods of work to be done by the commission.

There should then be two sub-com-mittees, one comprising scientific and. legal experts to examine the use of atomic weapons and other methods of mass destruction, also the structure and status of the international authority destined to ensure application ol’-. the convention. POLISH SUPPORT The second sub-committee would furnish the working committed with scientific and technical information necessary for the accomplishment of its task.

That w'ould ensure the necessary coordination.

M. Lange (Poland) warmly praised the Soviet proposals, saying that the world needed quick action in order to restore confidence among the nations, which must be assured that atomic bo'mbs were no longer being produced, and those which existed were being destroyed. Without such knowledge there could not be peace. Poland urged that the commission adopt immediately measures leading to outlawing atomic warfare in the manner proposed by the Soviet.

Poland fully supported the Russian draft convention. AGREE TO PROPOSAL

Dr van Kleffens (Netherlands) urged the commission to begin work on the specific draft as soon as possible as too much general discussion might lead to misunderstandings, particularly if they were concerned with questions of veto or penalisation. Such questions should be taken up later. Colonel Khalifa (Egypt) strongly attacked the veto power and endorsed the American plan eliminating it from questions dealing with atomic energy.

Dr Evatl (Australia) proposed that a working committee comprising one representative of each nation on the commission with appropriate advisors be formed immediately to consider all proposals mode to the commission and report to it frequently. After M. Gromyko had sought and received an assurande that such a committee would consider the Soviet plan as well as the American, the commission unanimously agreed to the proposal.