LESSONS FROM THE TIDAL WAVE!
MARINE disturbances of unknown origin have caused a tidal wave one hundred feet high to sweep the northern Pacific Islands and continental seaboards with disastrous results. It would appear almost as a timely warning to those ambitious scientists who are determined to destroy a whole surface fleet of unwanted American naval vessels by means of an atomic bomb a hundred times more potent than that which destroyed Horoshima, within the next few months. The experimentors themselves admit that they do not know what effect the bomb will have, or how far its repercussions will react upon the sea, the seabed or the marine life within the area concerned- Human curiosity has dictated a course which may well spell a disaster of the first magnitude and again we repeat the emphatic protest we made a month ago, that this experiment on such a grand scale of destructiveness, is absolutely unnecessary, entails risks which cannot even be imagined, and therefore in the interests of its potential victims—humanity itself —should not be permitted.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 59, 5 April 1946, Page 4
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175LESSONS FROM THE TIDAL WAVE! Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 59, 5 April 1946, Page 4
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