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Show Nagasaki A-Bomb Partial Dud WASHINGTON Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology, Technolo-gy, and a member of the. President's Presi-dent's evaluation board has told the Senate Naval Affairs Committee Com-mittee that the atomic bomb which was dropped on Nagasaki last August did not live up to advance expectations. "The results re-sults of the explosion at Nagasaki Naga-saki were not what we expected, judging from the test made in New Mexico," said Dr. Compton. Reliable sources believe the recent disclosure to be the major ma-jor reason for holding the forthcoming forth-coming Bikini atoll atomic bomb test with adequate instrumentation. instrumenta-tion. Because the bomb is disintegrated dis-integrated so rapidly much of the energy-unleashing nuclear fission does not "come off." The big question, therefore, is: How much of the atomic bomb's potential po-tential energy is unleashed in the explosion. According to Dr. Compton, atomic scientists attached to "operations crossroads have prepared pre-pared instruments to determine exactly how efficient the Nagasaki-type bomb is, and how much of a dud it could turn out to be. |