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...them was promptly forthcoming. It concerned Professor S. P. Alexandrov, Soviet adviser to the Soviet delegation to the Atomic Energy Commission. Said Alexeev: "It was hardly of his own free will that Professor Alexandrov, known in America, a prominent expert in metallurgy and former director of the Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals, accepted in 1936 the job of chief engineer of the GULAG (Department of Concentration Camps...
Thirsty for atomic news, good or bad, the Manhattan dailies last week pounced on some remarks made by Soviet scientific adviser Semen P. Alexandrov. who is a bigwig at Moscow's Central Institute of Research in Non-Ferrous Metals, and was one of Russia's two official witnesses at Bikini. It might be useful, Professor Alexandrov had suggested, to have a "balance sheet" which would show the amount of each nation's raw material and the efficiency of mining methods. It might also be useful to compare notes on how uranium and thorium deposits were classified. Russia...
...body of their stories, the papers reported Professor Alexandrov's remarks more or less accurately, but in their headlines and leads they gave the impression that he was talking about international "control" and "supervision." Since the Russian had no such things in mind, he denounced the stories as "sensation" reporting. Delegate Andrei Gromyko further squelched the matter by claiming that Alexandrov had merely drawn attention to the lack of information on raw materials -that and nothing more. As for controls, Gromyko added, "the Soviet delegation considers the national control to be sufficient...
Meanwhile, however, the U.S. delegates had perked up when they heard Alexandrov talking about "balance sheets." Would the balance sheets, they asked, be "audited"-that is, checked by some outside agency? Remembering that he is more of a scientist than a diplomat, Professor Alexandrov pulled in his neck. He was not prepared to answer right away, he said, but would bring the matter up again at some later time...
Moscow said nothing. But in San Francisco, Professor Simon Peter Alexandrov, one of the two official Soviet witnesses at Bikini, stepped ashore from the U.S.S. Panamint with startling news. Alexandrov (who works at the Moscow Central Institute of Research in Non-Ferrous Metals) said that his country was preparing to set off its own experimental atom bomb "some place in Russia where it would not be dangerous to people or wildlife (see below) . . . Siberia, in the mountainous area of Russia, in the Arctic or in the islands north of Canada. . . Very likely members of the United Nations will be invited...