ATOMIC BOMB TEST

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24898, 11 June 1946, Page 5

ATOMIC BOMB TEST

OBSERVERS ON WAY TO BIKINI

SCIENTISTS OF EIGHT COUNTRIES (tec 10 p.m.) NEW YORK. June 9. A special Navy train from Washingtoncarrying more than 230 observers of he Bikini Atoll atomic bomb experiment left for ‘J 1 ® P“ ci *® c°ast•Aboard the tram are 14 American, two nutch. two Egyptian, two Russian, and •wo Polish scientists, and one each

ran Britain, France, and China," says *. Australian Associated Press corSnondent, who is also accompanying the party to Bikini Atoll. The scientists are physicists, mathe■uticians, geologists, oceanographers, biologists, chemists, metallurgists, and mtitieers, Casual conversation with turn usually opens with a statement of how little they know. This is a yoyste of discovery for each. The biolorists hope to discover what happens to ratio-active ingredients in food, the oceanographers seek to discover how wster moves, the geologists will probe into rock formations, and the chemists try to solve the secret of certain natural combinations which they have been unable to reproduce in test tubes, fate aeems concerned with the bomb's destructive potentialities That always «ms to be somebody else’s job. There ire also aboard the train a number of American Navy and Army scientists aid foreign military and naval observers, and 160 American and 10 foreign press representatives. “The cost of the experiment is estimated at 500,000.000 dollars. The original value of the ships involved was more than 400.000,000 dollars, but most cf them were already scheduled for the junk heap. Their scrap value is ibout 4.000.000 dollars."