RUSSIAN BARGAINING SUGGESTED
Reepived Mondav, 7 p.m. WASIliXGTON, Sept. 25. Autlioritative sourees east grave doubts 011 Russia 's elaim that she had the atomic bomb in 1947 and specu- j lated that the statement may have been i made for propaganda purposes. At the same tiiue a State Department official expressed "interest" in the Koviet call for atomic* energy control but did not \ think it meant any change in the Krem- 1 lin's stubborn oppositiou to the com- 1 plete internatioual regulation demantl- j ed by the United States and other j natiojis. ! There is no official comment on the Itussian claiiu that the Kremlin knew the secret of the atomic bomb by November, 1947, an>l "had this weapon at its disposal, ' ' but best informed (puut ers in Washington said i't was unlikely the Ru^sians could have had tlie atomic bond) without testing it and it they had exphnled one earlier, the I'nited Stat'es almost certainly would have known about it. Ollicials said emjdiatically that delicate Anierican inslniments would have detected an exjdiision if oue oceurred previouslv. Diploiiiatic cjuarters believe Russia . made the elaim to bolster the interna- ' tirinui bargaining position and strengthen her propagauda position in Kurope. *
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 September 1949, Page 5
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