Show I Former Admiral Charges Army Muffed Atom Test T esl WASHINGTON July 25 INS Sen Hart R. R Conn wartime Asiatic fleet commander charged Thursday in Inthe the senate that the first atomic bomb experiment at Bikini was adversely affected when the army air corps exploded the bomb several hundred yards off Hart said the army air corps was given a part in th the experiment ment because it insisted on being In the show could show could not be left out and thus miss the the V chance for tor publicity The former admiral said there was no need for army tion Uon He continued The IThe proper method the only way to Insure that the explosion would be right where it was wanted would have been to suspend sus sus- pend pond the bomb from an anchored kite balloon That method would have b been en sure would have eliminated eliminated great difficulties in the timing of ot the entire operation and made it simpler and cheaper all aU around V Those facts are arc BO so evident th that t anyone would ask why ask why didn't the navy use a 8 kite b balloon The Tho answer is just as evident and is that the army air corps corps' insisted on being in the show show could could not be left out and thus miss the chance for tor publicity |