Show New Atomic Weapons Weapons' Seen een for Pacific Tests f WASHINGTON Dec 2 UP p- p proJected Projected atomic t tests teats behind a curtain of absolute secrecy In the mote remote Pacific suggested Tuesday that t t. American scientists may be paring new weapons based on one e same te terrible ble power as the tom atom bomb A A. terse terae announcement from the atomic energy commission disclosed dis db- closed that the armed forces arc making tiny atoll 1500 atoll 1500 lies flu from Irom the nearest large land naw into ass Into a oft closed proving grounds grounds unda for tor research on new fundamental fun- fun mental data What goes on n there the com com- I mission said Is expected to result in advances In peaceful as well wel as In in military applications of atomic energy Draw Your Own Asked whether a reference to atomic weapons weapons' means that this country's arsenal now includes a nuclear fission running running- mate forthe for tor the atom bomb one one official lal re replied replied re- re plied pIled You can draw your own con con- Unlike the surface and u underwater underwater under under- der- der water atom bomb tests at t Bikini atoll in tn the summer ummer of 1946 which were cov covered red by several hundred reporters and foreign observers the new experiments will win be under full tull security restrictions Monday Mon Mon- Monday day nights night's announcement said The area will be shut off oft from the world and the security council of ot the United Nations will be notified notified noti noU- fied fled to this effect as provided Inthe in inthe inthe the U. U N. N trusteeship agreement for the former Cormer mandated Japanese-mandated islands Natives to Leave 1 The native inhabitants of the atoll islands of and f iri will leave for a permanent new home which they will select Bikini was unsuitable for the new experiments the commission said because it lacked land surface surface su sur sur- face enough to contain the instrumentation instrumentation n necessary necessary to to the scientific scientific scientific observations which must m t be made I itself has only about 1 21 2 square miles of land Jand One big reason for tor choosing Mt I lt the announcement announcement an an- explained Is its isola isola- tion There are hundreds of miles mUes of open seas seu in the direction in which winds might carry radioactive radioactive radioactive radio radio- active particles It lies Hes about half halt way between Hawaii and the Philippines and the closest big land area is 11 New Guinea 1500 miles mUes to the southwest After the Bikini tests there were reports of ot unusual radioactivity never officially confirmed as far tar faraway faraway away as France and the we wet west coast coast- of ot th the United States I Install Housing The army navy and air force fore force arc are installing the necessary hoWling housing housing hous hoWl ing protective bu buildings for th the thes s scientists and control posts Som Some military installations put up after the marines killed the Japanese garrison In a six-day six fight in i February 1944 will be renovated renovate for use f Lt Gen John John E. E Hu Hull l Pacific F of ot the army has overall overall overall over over- all command C mand on that at job Senator Brien McMahon D. D COrn Coon a member of th the senate house nt atomic lc c co o mm mini i tt tte e e ah and author of ot the atomic energy act told reporters The start on construction I Ithe is the natural natural- natural reasonable development development develop develop- ment of atomic energy in view o of world conditions today and the th refusal of the Russians to accept i ia a good plan for tor co control I |