TRUE TEST UNDER WATER
WARHIXGTON, July 2. Mr. W. A. Higinbotham, chairman of the Federation of American .Scientists. has issued a statement that the Bikini test contributed nothing to scientilic kiipvvleilge and , the .-Qnly t.mly signili cant test will be a (leepkuuderwftter' ex j plosion. '-v \An exploftxpn ,^>elow! the suffkce will4 more; damaging to ships'' but tli'e. exptir'imen; will be conducted in shallow water with tlie explosion 's effects therebv niultiplied. He added that besides the militarv reasons for the test already hcld, there will doulitless be some teehriical items gathexed but nothing will ho learned of the value of peacetinie uses of atomic energy which could be learned inucli more cheaply and more aecurately in laboratories with less of n eircus atinospliere.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 July 1946, Page 5
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