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Will Become General (7.30 pm.) WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. Sir James Chadwick, chief of the British scientists in the atomic bomb experiment, declared that any nation possessing a reasonable amount of industrial facilities and access to the required materials could develop the atomic bomb within five years. The necessary knowledge to provide the nations at present uninformed with a basis for production could be acquired within two months without assistance from "Aritain or America. Referring to the danger oi Germany and Japan bringing out the atomic bomb later. Sir James said that perhaps we can control their industrial facilities and materials sufficiently to prevent it. Sir James confirmed the statement that the explosion of the bomb above the ground causes radio activity to be dispersed by cloud. “Britain realised first of all the potentialities of this weapon.” he said. “Our convictions initiated and siied the bomb project. We were ahead of everybody else.” He lauded the enormous vigour with which the United States took over the project.
Soviet Ambassador Appointed The Soviet Vice-Commissar for Foreign Affairs, M. Kavtaradze, has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Rumania with the rank of Ambassador.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23278, 14 August 1945, Page 5
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