ATOMIC BOMB

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 7, 9 January 1946, Page 5

ATOMIC BOMB

RUSSIA SAID TO HAVE PRODUCED ONE

CAN BE MASS MADE Recd. 6.39 p.m. London, Jan. 8. Dr. Raphael E. G. Armattoe, noted scientist and director of Lomeshire Research Centre of Anthropology and Human Biology, of Londonderry, declared that, following the announcement of the discovery of the atomic bomb without the Soviet Union’s particiption, the Soviet Defence Council appointed five Soviet scientists to undertake atom research at high pressure. They later were joined by Drs. Voller and Hertz, two famous German physicists, who were captured, and on December 18 they were able to announce secretly to the authorities the production of an atomic bomb with a spin or angular momentum. Dr. Armattoe, without disclosing the source of his information, said it was claimed that in the preliminary trial the bomb, which was about the size of a tennis ball, had a horizontal pulverisation range of 85 kilometres and a vertical lift of more than ten kilometres. The temperature generated was in the neighbourhood of several million degrees centigrade. Dr. Armattoe expressed the opinion that the Russian bomb rendered the British and American one almost obsolete, because, whereas the former was destructive in character the latter depended on a determined size of uranium, known as the “critical” size. The Russian bomb could be of any size, and, therefore, could be manufactured on a mass production scale.