RADIO-ACTIVE METALS
PRODUCTION BY GERMAN SCIENTISTS AMERICAN OFFICIALS’ SEIZURE BERLIN, Dec. 5. A high American Military Government official said there was strong evidence that German scientists were producing for “one of the occupying Powers ” large quantities of mesothorium —a radio-active metal mainly used in nuclear fission and the manufacture of atomic bombs. The official said the Americans carried out a raid against black marketeers, in which they seized 60 milligrams of mesothorium, 60 milligrams of radium, and arrested 20 Germans and one Dutchman. The official pointed out that all phases of atomic research were forbidden to Germane-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26638, 8 December 1947, Page 6
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97RADIO-ACTIVE METALS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26638, 8 December 1947, Page 6
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