THE MIGHTY ATOM

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 98, 16 August 1945, Page 4

THE MIGHTY ATOM

Sir —Wc have just learnt of the atomic bomb and its far reaching possibilities in the future. As far as I can recollect one of the higlv est explosives known to science, up to date, has been compressed air. Electricity is Nature's means of lecting the atom (Nitrogen) and discharging it for example in nature's laboratory we have the thun-» der storm which is produced by the currents of air colliding in the stratosphere heavy clouds ol" moisture being the controlling influence on the. electrical forces. But now we are being told that science is .solving "the problem of harnessing the Atom for the use of industrial power. If this should happen > mayt we hope that there will be peace on earth and goodwill towards man; lest the worse befall us ? by some fool scientist letting loose the dynamic forces of Nature, then there, will be no Cinopath or burial service, but. to dust we shall return. I remember Eddison during the last war stating that he could have stop-t ped the but that he was frightened to let loose the forces of Nature without having solved the problem of how to control them. Therefore he did not devulge h)ls secret. If this great, advance in science is going to produce, a better world then we can travel the path of life without fear. Yours etc., W. BRADSHAW.