Talks Of Atom Bomb Race With Russia
NEW YORK, Oct. 4. President Truman will ask Congress to double tlie nation 's atom bomb production programme as the answer tb tlie Russian jiossession of the bomb, says the Nashville Tennessean. A Wasliington dispatcli to the newspapet said President' Truman, at the request of the Atoniic Energy. Commission, will ask Congress for emergency funds doubling the commission 's 378,000,000 ilollar appropriation for 1950 and 30, 000. 000 to (50, 000, 000 dollars additiongl for •'construction this fiscal year. The dispatcli added that the Commission liad been working qn plans for a tre mendous expansion of boiub production and now feels that the urgencv of the arniament race with Russia demands immediate actiou.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 October 1949, Page 5
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