U.S. HAD SECRET WEAPONS DEVELOPED
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POTENT WAE GAS AND IMPROVED ' FIRE-BOMBS.
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Received Tuesday, 9.3b p.m. j NEW YORK, A_. r.l 9. j The United btates developed a war ' gas that wo i_d liave rendered the Japauese milicary masks useless, said the Secretary Oi War (Mr. Patterson) addressing the American Ohemical Society. Major-General Alden Waitt, of the ' Chemicai Warfare Service, said that chemical warfare wouid probably be as decisive r.s the atoinic homh in ri:y future war. He added: "Already Wo know of agwnts thcusands of timcs more toxic than the mustard gas, phosgene, cyanides and arensicals we have in the past worked with." , Mr. Patterson a.so declared that atthe end of the war the United States was just getting into its stride with improved fire-bombs, which would . have leveiled everyfchmg the enemy , had, making cities uninhahitahle. He cxplained that. the incendiaries created a new phenomenon called "fire storms," which caused columns of heated air to rise 21 miles high, in- ; creasing the wind velocities to such an extent that, at the edge of the vortex, trees three feet in diameter, were uprooted.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 April 1946, Page 5
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