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Chadwick On The Atomic Bomb:
1945
The New York
Times, Monday, August 13, 1945:
‘Sir James
Chadwick, chief British scientist in the atomic bomb project, said today there
was a possibility that within about ten years atomic energy could be used for
industrial purposes.
The Noble Prize winner in
physics in 1935 also declared that the atomic bomb was not strictly a
British-American secret, asserting that any nation could learn the secret in
about five years of experimentation, assuming it had access to the necessary raw
materials.
“I think this is a very serious point”, he said.
Sir James
was chief scientific advisor to the British members of the
American-British-Canadian policy committee that developed the bomb that wrecked
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.’
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