RUSSIA SAID TO BE TRYING TO PRODUCE ATOMIC CLOUDS

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 November 1949, Page 5

RUSSIA SAID TO BE TRYING TO PRODUCE ATOMIC CLOUDS

LONDON, Nov. 3 (Ree. 6 seeking the production of “atom was made by the International C Questions, whose members inci Maurice Schumann (of France) zon ! (of Great Britain). The report stated that Soviet scientific journals indicate that Russia has possessed atomic piles for some time.

“It technically is possible to produce atomic clouds by allowing different kinds of gas to pass through atomic piles, and by concentrating them afterward by pressure,” it continues. “Atomic clouds can cover a much wider area than any atomic bomb, and therefore may be employed against troops, in the field. It is possible to produce large quantities of such clouds which can be concentrated in ordinary bombs in the same manner as poison gas. Such bombs would be

pm).—A warning that Russia is lie clouds” to use against troops, Committee for Study of European hide M. Paul Reynaud and M. and Lords Vansittart and Braba-

easier to manufacture and far less expensive. “Production of such clouds does not give rise to explosions and we would, therefore, not be aware of their production, which would not be registered by our seismographs, as in the case of the atomic explosion which occurrred in the U.S.S.R.”

The report also said it was believed that such gases would lose their radio-activity under storage, and that atomic-cloud gas could only be produced for immediate use. However, it •belittled the Russian claims that they produced the atomic bomb two years ago.—Special N.Z.P.A. Correspondent.