ATOMIC BOMBS TOO DEAR FOR BRITAIN.
Received Monday, 7 p.m. LOXDOX, Xov. 17. Diplnmatic nioves to borrow atomie liomlis from America have failed, says the Daily Fxpress seient ilie correspoudeiit. llritaiii is not making any and has no iininediate plans to make tliem. Militarv slrategists diseonnt the possilulity of there being an appreeiable nniiiber of atomie weapons in Britain wilhin the next live years. A faetor whieh is lndding np British (bwelopment of atonde, ■'•energy ' for militarv purposes ts Ihe • eT)inp.Jgte; see- " reev mainttiined by the Uiiiteil \States on the metliod of making plutonium British experts consider they would re(juire two years' resesireh to prodnee )dut oiiitini, and :t fnrther two years w otihi be neeiled to ereate ti plant for its ]iroduet iott. Britain jmssesses fnll details of the manui aetnre of nraninm 235, whieh was tiseii i n t.lie Hiroshima bomb, bnt lter indtistrial eajiaeity eottld not. stand the strain of building the hnge ]»lant needed for 1 ii is prie'ess. If Uniteil Xations fails, Britain will almost eertainly arrtmge an over-till Fmpire selterne of titomie defence.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 November 1946, Page 5
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