ATOMIC POWER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 266, 10 November 1945, Page 5

ATOMIC POWER

DANGER TO WORLD SCIENTISTS UNITING WORKERS WHO MADE BOMB FORM FEDERATION Recd. 9.40 p.m. New York, Nov. 8. Upwards of 90 per co it. of 1300 scientific workers, whose research and labour produced the atomic bomb, have formed a federation of atomic scientists for the following purposes: To study the implications of United States and world liberation of a nuclear of atomic energy. To create realisation of the dangers facing all civilisation if the tremendous destructive potential of a nuclear of energy is misused:

To help establish an atmosphere of world security in which the beneficial possibilities of a nuclear of the energy may be developed. Also, to study the relation between national legislation and the establishment of an adequate international policy. In an informal talk with a group of Congressmen and Pressmen, the scientists’ spokesman said they were unanimously co ivinced that even the knowledge of the bomb’s manufacture was a secret which could not be kept for long. They were unanimous in asserti ig that there were no fundamental scientific secrets not alreadyknown to all the nations.