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...Johnson bill was not supposed to be concerned with international control of atomic power. But its provision for iron secrecy, its original harsh penalties were patently part of an optimistic plan to keep foreign nations . (everyone knew that meant Russia) from making atom bombs. Scientist after scientist turned up to swear that there was no real secret to be kept, to point out that the May-Johnson bill would only throttle scientific research and start a world arms race. Amid all the confusion new bills were .written-last week a Ball bill, a McMahon bill, a Kilgore-Magnuson bill...
Last week's atomic conversation: ¶ Alamogordo, N. Mex. was abuzz with the news that red Hereford cows had turned white following the first atomic explosion nearby. At Carrizozo, a black cat had turned half white. At Bingham. a rancher blamed the atom for grey streaks in his beard...
...Moscow's New Times read the U.S. a history lesson implying that any attempt on its part to gain world domination via the atom would fail. ¶ At Sacramento, Calif., the aviators who dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki were asked if they wanted it placed under international control. Shouted the fivers: "Hell...
...Prophet H. G. Wells, 79, who foresaw the atom bomb 31 years ago, predicted the imminent end of mankind. In his latest book, Mind at the End of its Tether, written last year and serialized in British and U.S. newspapers last week, he wrote: "Homo sapiens, as he has been pleased to call himself is, in his present form, played out. The stars in their courses have turned against man and he has to give place to some other animal, better adapted to the fate that closes in. This new animal may be of an entirely alien strain...
When it came to the atom bomb, the report dropped its own shocker on the plane-building East and West Coasts. Said the report: six atomic bombs dropped in the Los Angeles area could completely wipe out the giant Southern California plane industry. What must be done, said the report, is to disperse the aircraft industry. This could best be accomplished by letting coast planemakers trade some of their present plants for Government-owned facilities inland. The moving costs should be paid by the Government...