STRANGE THINGS CAN HAPPEN

Chronicle (Levin), 26 July 1946, Page 5

STRANGE THINGS CAN HAPPEN

Received Tlmrsdav, 7.10 p.m. BIKINI, July- 25. "Even Ihe heart of atomic. clouiI does not fog ]ihotograpliie plates, " w rites ihe Auslrulian Press correspondent. "Tliis renuirkable. diseovery is revealed in a series oi" niotion pieture lilnis may by an aulomatic caniera in the nose of a drone frobot) plttnfwliich vvas sent tli rough the great niusliroom of tlie first sitomie test explosion. L saw tlii.s uuedited libu which may never be released to the public, aboard tlie Appalaeliian. It was expected the intf^re radioaetivity of the cloud would all the film, as under laboratory conditions even m-ild radioaetivity niarks a 11m and photograp-Mc plates. In fact the diseovery of radioactive effects was made accidentallv by the discolouration of sucli plates left inadvertentlv near a radioactive substance. The films I saw privateh were undaniaged. "Anotlier st range thing was that the film showed the aeroplane was trai'elling on a steadv cour.se and the 'boiling turbulence' of the cloud apparentlv did not afi'ect it. As all air travellers know, flying into a cloud produees a see-sawing niotion but apparently the atomic cloud is niore unil'onu and less changeable than ordinarv cloud. As far as I couid learn, the robot aircraft which took the pictures by flying right th rough tlie cloud, was not radioactivel y hot when it returned."