Secrecy and loyalty tests threaten US science pace
Scientists fear secrecy and FBI clearance rules choke basic research while Congress debates a national science foundation bill. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warns that overbroad security harms progress, boosts risk of Soviet A and H bombs, and calls for security by achievement.
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Committee On Atomic Information
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bulletin
Soviet Union
Russia
United States
House of Representatives
National Science Foundation
House
FBI
America
Truman
Congress
Britain
Fuchs
Roosevelt
Canada
Lesslie R. Groves
Harold C. Urey
Harvard
James B. Conant
David E. Lilienthal
AEC
Kremlin
Scientist Indicates Hydrogen Bomb Work at Los Alamos
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports Dr. Alvin C. Graves says he has considered U.S. readiness in his Los Alamos work on atom and hydrogen bombs. The remark, made at a public forum on World War III preparedness, follows delayed editorial caution before publishing. Los Alamos officials offered no immediate comment.
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N. M
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Los Alamos
Alvin C. Graves
University of California
United States
Graves
Restricted Atomic Center
New Mexican
Security Service
Germans’ Glider Photo Evidence Soviet Ignore Ban
The Neues Deutschland published a picture showing Communist youths assembling a glider for the May 27 30 march on Berlin, illustrating the Soviet zone’s flouting of the four power anti gliding law. Major General James P Hodges calls the move a clear breach and cites a revived German air force under the guise of police.
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Russia
Neues Deutschland
Socialist Unity (Communist) Party
United States
Britain
France
Germany
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Allied Military Security Board
East Germany
Hitler
Soviet Zone
Pope to Announce Discovery of St Peter’s Tomb
A Vatican source says Pope Pius will reveal next month the discovery of St Peter’s tomb in an underground chapel beneath the basilica. The site has been cleared after over ten years of excavation and the pope will announce during the underground basilica opening. The find could silence critics who doubt St Peter’s presence in Rome.
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Pius
St. Peter
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Groom Recalls False Bite Woes in Chicago Divorce Court
In Chicago a 61 year old groom Albert Franc complained his wife forced him to pay for her trousseau and then bit him for false teeth. Rose Franc, 47, said the trousseau was her former wife’s clothing and the teeth were not satisfactory. Judge Sabath ordered a $25 weekly food allowance to the wife while the divorce proceeds and kept the teeth with Rose Franc.
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Albert Franc
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Trousseau
Joseph Sabath
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