Britain’s first atom bomb explh
in the Monte Bello Islands off the nort
temperature of nearly 1,000,000 degrees a
was vaporized. By comparison, the temperature ©
between 1,290 and 2,190 degrees

Fahrenheit and the melting

osion, in a Royal Navy frigate anchored
hwest coast of Australia,
s it burst through the hull. . The vessel
f molten lava in a volcano is

produced a-

point for dry

granite is 1,740 degrees Fahrenheit — it
These pictures show (left) the

high and a mile wide, fo

vaporizes at 4,530 degrees.
huge upward surge of water, steam
and smoke at an early stage of the explosion and (right) the cloud, two miles

rmed at a stage only seconds later. |

Britain’s first atom- bomb explosion

vaporized naval ship

sclosed*to the House of Commons
bomb experiment was “something
as an old parliamentarian he “was
dispersed without parliament being

Prime Minister Winston Churchill di
last week that the cost of Britain’s first atom
$280) million.”
tather astonished” that this sum “could be

over £100 (about

made aware of it.”

The Premier was replying to S.

asking about the cost of the explosion said: a
d that to some of us it 1s no comfort at all

s in the state are equally responsible

“\Vill you bear in min
to realise that both major partie
for this colossal folly ?”

Describing the bomb ex
Bello Islands, Churchill said *

the effect of an explosion in a harbor.”
At the moment of the explosion
in the guinea-pig frigate Plym was a

the surface heat of the sun.

The frigate was vaporized, Churchill said, and
ll of the Plym the temperature was nearly

first burst through the hu
one million degrees. It was, of
of explosion.” Be

“Red plot’ in

France flops

PARIS
In an attempt to give the im-
pression that it had documentary
evidence of the “Communist plot”
‘it has been talking so much about,
the French government has pre-
sented a. 135-page “dossier” to the
National Assembly.

The government is demanding
that the assembly should lift the
parliamentary immunity against
“arrest of five leading members of
the French Communist party, in-
Cluding Jacques Duclos.

All that the ‘documents’? show
is that the French Communist
‘party is against the war in Indo-
‘china, against the French govern-
ment’s repression of the libera-
tion movements in North Africa
‘and against the French govern-
Ment’s subservience in allowing
France to be virtually occupied
‘by the Americans.

plosion aboard HMS Plym in the Monte
‘the object of the test was to investigate

And

Silverman, Labor MP; who in

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hundred times greater than

“hen the flash

course’ far higher at the point

“The weapon, he continued. be-
haved exactly as expected and
forecasted in many precise details
by Dr. W. J. Penney, in charge of
the experiment. Other points from
Churchill’s description were:

“Conditions were favorable and
care was taken to wait for south-
erly winds so as to avoid the pos-
sibility of any significant con-
centration of radioactive particles
spreading over the. Australian
mainland.

“Specimen structures of impor-
tance to civil defense and to the
armed services were erected at
various distances.

“«rnstruments ‘were set up to
record the effect of contamina-
tion, blast, heat flash, gamma ray
flash and other factors of inter-
est...

“Thousands of tons of water
and of mud and rock from the
sea bottom were thrown many
thousands of feet into the air and
a high tidal wave was caused.

“very soon after the explosion
two naval officers undertook the
dangerous task of flying helicop-

LONDON

on October the temperature

lagoon where Plym had been.
“This was in order to take
samples of ‘the water so that its
radioactivity could be measured.
“After a long interval scientists
and service personnel, in protec-
tive clothing, entered the contam-
inated area to examine the effect
and to recover records.”
Churchill \ then thanked the
Australian government, and all
those concerned in the production
of the bomb. ;
Later Churchill said: “‘A large
number of important people in the
U.S. have for some time been most
anxious that Britain should be
kept better informed, and. this
test will greatly facilitate and
support the task which these
gentlemen have set themselves.”
Emrys Hughes, another Lab-
or member, said that the note
of flippancy that crept into
Churchill’s statement would ap-
pal many people (Tory cries ‘of:
“Nonsense” and ‘‘Rubbish’’)
when they realize what would
happen to Britain if an atom
bomb were dropped in the Port
of London.

Was it not quite clear now that
this country was in enormous dan-
ger, and that the atom bomb
ought to be exported to America?

Churchill replied: ‘‘These are
very large issues. - There is no
question of flippancy in what I
said. I am only stating facts.”’

The Church of England news-
paper, commenting on the explo-
sion says: ;

“Should we ever feel that
circumstances oblige us to use
this weapon it should be with
a sense of shame that we do so:
shame for our own moral weak-
ness and for our participation

~and $280 million

‘Fascism has come

to Kenya’

newspapermen in Nairobi.

be suppressed. .
“You must feel very happy at
the outward success of your cruel
operation,” says the letter. ‘‘You
arrested our leader Jomo Keny-
atta and a lot of other people.
«Thousands of Africans leading
a normal life have been stopped,
searched, beaten, humiliated and
arrested, Creating the emergency,
you have prutally treated us, and
now you cannot claim democracy
and freedom.

“Fascism has come to Kenya.
We have been robbed of all
freedom, you have destroyed
our press by arresting our edi-
tors and suppressing our news-
papers.

“But you cannot suppress the
voice of the people. The brutality
and suppression, the show of force
and the rule of the gun will not
stop us from our goal.

“You cannot end our political
wish by arresting our leaders. We
have now more men with brains
and will continue to fight you and
achieve our freedom. :

“This is the voice of new Afri-
ca. We have been forced to go
underground. If we are known
you will murder us. We are not
afraid.

‘we ask how many of us you
will imprison, and how many of

Robbed of freedom

Africans declare

NAIROBI

‘A call-of défiance from the ‘African people of Kenya has been
made in an anonymous letter received by, many white settlers and

It charges the Kenya government with robbing the Africans of
their rights and warns that the voice of the African people cannot

is in our numbers. We shall re-
taliate in the method you have
employed.

“we shall not forget the bad
treatment we are suffering. When
our,time comes we shall not show
mercy because you don’t know
what mercy is.

“‘We will kill you like you are
murdering us today. This is no
threat. It is how we are feeling
today.

“Africans, Unite!”

(Baffled and angered by their
failure to break the spirit of the
Africans in Kenya, the British
police there are claiming that the

Africans are being controlled
“from outside Kenya.”
“The anti-government cam-

paign has been most cleverly di-
rected and extraordinarily well
carried out,’”? said one. police of-
ficial.

It is now being acknowledged
that root causes of unrest in the
past two years are the land hun-
ger of a big section of the Kikuyu
tribe.

Schools and hospitals are
completely inadequate and the
housing problem is particularly
acute, with 10,000 in the Nai-

us you will kill.

ters over the heavily contaminated

in the sin of mankind.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 31, 1952 — Page 3

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“We are six millions and power homeless.

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