| Show I Al m Bomb I. I To End of Wars By JOSEPH I L. L MYLER MYLE WASHINGTON TON Aug 7 UP- UP For UP-For For good or ill III man has unlocked unlocked un un- un- un locked th the incalculable power of the atom He has entered upon the atomic age His first use of this yer po the power the same that energizes the s sun n the stars and the far galaxies has galaxies has been peen to make a bom bomb It is the most terrible engine of destruction ever conc conceived ived It may end the Japanese war soon If the Japanese decide to fight on it will demolish their homeland But when the bombs bomb's work Is done its makers hope to convert Its power to the arts of peace and to the enforcement of peace Up Upon m realization o of this hope hangs the fate tate of ot humanity Atomic Atom Atom- ic power could remake the world it also could destroy it It Its power to Ides destroy troy has b been en made manifest to the Japanese An atomic bomb more snore devastating than tons of ot TNT was dropped on the Japanese army base of ot Hiroshima on Sunda Sunday Jo Japan The next day Pres Truman gave the enemy another chance to a ac accept accept ac- ac the surrender or ultimatum of Potsdam If they do not accept ours our terms he s said ld they may expect a rain of ot ruin rutn from the air the like of which has never been seen seen on this earth Observers here frankly awed b by the bo boMbs s Implications believed the Japanese this time time time-it If they have any reason left might left might see seethe seethe seethe the light t. t But it may be that many more bombs bomb will have to be dropped upon Japan I Invasion aslon troops may have to follow Janow the bombs The United States takes no chances Size of the army will not mit be re reduced me- me now because the new weapon is in use The announcements on the atomic bomb by Pres Free Truman Secy of ot War Henry L. L StimsOn n Prime Minister Clement Attlee and former Prime Minister Winston Churchill signalized d what the Wat war department called mans ans an's entrance into a new physical world The new bomb th the war department department depart ment meat said sald may be the Instrumentality Instrumentality Instrumentality mentality to end all major wars war Three Years Research In any event It means that the basic power of the universe the power which binds the atoms atom's InfinItesimal in infinitesimal infinitesimal In- In solar system to together together together to- to gether the power which is is the source of all the suns sun's r radiation I la Is now in a a 8 measure mans The present trustees of ot this power are are the Anglo-American Anglo al al- al lies Their pooled science and of ot Americas America's w wealth accomplished i in three Intense years of secret research and Herculean effort eort what decades ot of previous effort by the worlds world's great greatest st physicists had failed to achieve 1 They broke into the atom extracted extracted ex ex- its power and placed it under restraint at mans man's service In so 50 doing they beat the axis S See 2 Column 1 Atom Promises fp to o End EndAll All AU Future Conflicts Continued from Page One 4 by a t matter of ot perhaps s only orly a a afew afew few months Had the European Europe n war var lasted a little longer longcr the Germans Gennan might have won the e race But the British and Americans won And so long as they only possess the k key y to the atoms atom's powerhouse the they are In Ina a position to enforce the peace o of the world The menace of such vast power Is obvious It poses the most fateful fateful fate fate- ful CuI question over ever asked C Can n man be trusted with It or will he use it to destroy hi his world Even now Pres Pres' Truman said saM science is searching for or methods of at prot protecting us and the rest of ot the world from the danger of at sudden dud sud den destruction Churchill too saw the menace This ThIR re cl revelation Uon of at the secrets of at nature long mercifully withheld withheld withheld with with- held from tram man mari should arouse he said the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of at every ery human being capa capable le of ot comprehension We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be most to conduce peace among nati nations ns n and d that instead they may become a a. perennial foundation of ot world prosperity The test will come In years year ahead for ahead for it It will be years SUm SUm- son Jon and Truman agreed before atomic power can be harne harnessed ed economically to replace the power now supplied by boat baal oil and water wa wa- ter A scientists scientist's attitude was expressed expressed ex ex- ex- ex pressed by Father Thomas J J. J Love head of at the physics physic department nt of ot Georgetown university He said the die dlo was wu cast Launched by F P D ItMan R It Man will destroy himself If it he doesn't learn to live In peace with his fellows cHows he f said I In 1939 the late Pres Roos Roosevelt velt appointed a committee to study the possibility of capturing atomic en energy for tor war Two years later the decision WB was made to try it it In December 1942 the order w went nt out to start construction of ot lar large e scale plants plant In August 1943 British scientists Joined In Inthe inthe th the project which proceeded under undera a CO combined T policy committee From the start to finish under Mr Roosevelt's direct orders the project W was 8 carr carried ed out In ill absolute secrecy The secret known In part to many and in its entirety to toa toa toi a i few was kept without a 8 single known leak to the enemy Brand new cl cities les sprang up One Oneat Oneat at at a place 18 miles mUes west of ot Knoxville Knoxville Knoxville Knox- Knox ville Tenn became known as u Oa Oak OakRidge Ridge with a population of about fifth largest community in the state Another at a 8 site 15 miles miles' northwest of ot Pas Pasco o Wash became Richland I A special laboratory was set up In a New aNew Mexican desert 30 miles mUes northwest n of at Santa Fe Other smaller plants plant were established elsewhere in the United Stat States s and Canada I Appropriated Fund Congress took the word of Stimson Stimson SUm son and and Gen George C C. Marshall army chief of staff that the project project ec was worthwhile and approprIated appropriated appropriated for it The climax came July 16 At 5 30 a. a m. m In a a. thunderstorm the scientists dentists and generals f who had labored to plumb the atom gathered In the desert at a remote corner comer of ot the Alamogordo N. N NM M M. air airbase base to see Iee whether they they tl had ad succeeded In harnessing the atom or whether they had produced ed an uncontrollable and unusable on As one witness said We were reaching into the unknown and we did not know what might come corns of at it Il i 1 Specifications of ot th the atomic bomb and the processes by which It its charge is made remain military secrets secret and will vill so remain according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to Truman until is known of its potentialities Stimson disclosed however that improvements are imminent which will increase the bombs bomb's already fantastic power several fold Meanwhile all aJl the plants producIng producing pro pro- the bomb arc in this this' country country country coun coun- try and in the control of U. U S. S military ry a authorities All the patents patents patents pat pat- are held in Britain Canada and the United States with all aU rights under them assigned to the various governments x U U. S. S Lone Irl d Producer The element used I is uranium the ore arc of ot which is as plentiful as copper but which is largely concentrated concentrated concentrated con con- in North America and north Africa where it is controlled by the British Canadians and Americans American There are other deposits de deposits deposits de- de posits In Austria and Scandinavia V-E V day destroyed any chance the Germans might have hate had to break down the atom and get at its power The allies ames are convinced convInced convinced con con- vinced Stimson said that Japan will wUl not be in a position to use an anatomic anatomic anatomic atomic bomb In this war That leaves the Anglo-American Anglo allies ames for the time being alone Inthis in inthis inthis this new field ac according to Dr Frank Thone of Science Service a st student dent of of nuclear physics Russian scientists l lacking the costly machinery for smash atom ing are far tar behind Thone said ald and Japan lacks both the Ute facilities and the uranium The only other possible competition tion he said would be from any German physicists who might have found asylum and assistance outside Germany That however is exceedingly unlikely Thone said Even If such mch scientists found refuge in some neutral country like Argentina he pointed out it is highly improbable that they could find the multiplied millions of ot dollars dollars dollars dol dol- dol- dol lars successful research would require re reI re- re I quire |
