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enELTRES
Unfortunate:
\
Accident: Dulles
Washington, Wed.—US Secre-
) tery of State Dulles sa‘d yesferday reports of 23 Japanese
fishermen . being ‘burned by
' yadloactive ashes which rained
: from the sky after a mid-Pacific atc nic explosion appeared
inlicate
an
unfortunate
ents“Ky ado- Renter.
hin Letieve “that the weapon in
question was rot an atomic tomb
tet a hydrogen bomb built with
r
weapon of this type
rted reecntly to have
teted in Russia,
¥
eya also pointed out the}
ecu<‘Jerable durability of the
eust's redicactivity,
.
“I¢ the crew,” he added, ‘had.
§nhated the dust into thelr lungs,*
es the’ situation indicates they
hed, rew sympttoms may appear
_ within a week.
“Probably it was a hydrogen
temb, cf @ large and very 2ompitte type. .
Pre
ed In a test tube the
exirectcd dust will be placed un€cr 2a sorieg of analyses at the
J-ctcre Tustitute, Tokyo UniverE.ly.
we the explcsion occurred at
cut 4 am on the morning of
farch 1 wes described byAikiKuboyama, the boat's radiohe ekics lit up as if the sun
nd soddenly risen from teh'nd
Yeuds on the Horizon.
“nomenon
lasted
for
The
about
“Then seven or eight minutes
Yater a duly explosion was heard.
Trree hou
later dust _besan »
.3 eH arcund the sea,”
.
verts telieve from the t'me}
found tock to travel, the snip?
vis
located
approximately. 1004
mites from the centre of {he blast.s
Ore thing appears to ce clear |
iy nati6n with submarines
ve the US nuckar we]
in the Pacit
ech +9 efcult,
pronece
ee
~
.
Dectors assigned to
in Tokyo were ec
parficelar
with
twc
espects:
In eherp
contrest
“Hiroshima ~ symptom:
dicod corpuscles in 3
stead of increasing., +
ping.
Nor has any
another familiar atomic
been noticed.
One theory was that ;
ty in the dust resulting
March 1 test wes of a
ly diferent” nature,
From the Pukuryu
perts eatrected for ev.
eremme of the dange:
Srow-wh.te end fine ¢
it consists mostly of fr-
coral reefs
test erea.
that abou:
— But pleced vader
ecunter it registered
night after the exple
en impressive 40,600
Careful study of the ¢
discloze
gerding
nuclear
said Dr
‘some of ‘the s
the type, and s
weapon tested !
Takeya,-
reum-tences
fn
w
noticed the explo<
SonneaS