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Already it lg suspected that Ruses
sian progress in the nuclear and thermonuciear fields has made great steps
forward. Recently Moscow permitted
the departure of two German scientists, selzed during World War If. It
is reasoned these men are no longer
essential to Soviet atomic physics. Yet
one of them, Gustav Hertz, is a Nobel
Prize winner and the other, Manfred
von Ardenne, hag an international
reputation, While the Communists
clamor for an end to American experiments, continued Soviet Siberian
explosions have produced radioactive
snowfalls in Korea,
Forebodings of European intellectuals are being carefully stirred up.
Last month a truly frightening paper
was presented at the French Academy
of Science by a protégé of the famous
Prince de Broglie. De Broglie's name
carries ag much scientific prestlge in
France as does that of Einstein in
the United States. The protégé,
Charles-Noel Martin, warned that
dust raised into the atmosphere by
monstrous experiments might eventually obscure the sun’s rays and change
the, climate of the globe. He spoke
of the danger that radioactive rain
may ultimately destroy plant life.
These theses were widely discussed
with fearful effect.
A Russian Jules Verne
While stirring a witches’ broth of
atomic horror, Soviet propaganda is
endeavoring te promote the idea that
its own nuclear science is as devoted
to purely peaceful purposes as that
of the United States is to war. Minds |,
already befuddled by indigestible scl-|°
ence fiction are inoculated with extraodinary nonsense made in Moscow.
Thus, for example, the observations
of a Russian general of engineers,
G. Pokrovski, have been given considerable circulation. Any admirer of
the works of Jules Verne should find
them stimulating. Pokrovaki speaks
of the usefulness in Arctic exploration of atomic submarines which will
journey under the ice and send men
to the surface on stairways or elevataxes thrust upward. He advocates airborne tractors with atomic motors to
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nuclear energy to melt the polar icecaps and warm the frozen North—
quite forgetting that this would raise
drowning New York, Philadelphia,
Leningrad and most of Holland.
The point is that Soviet policymakers are being smart enough to
use public ignorance of scientific matterg for general Communist political
advantage. No sensible anawers have
yet been produced by our side. Alarms
and confusion continue to obscure the
sclentific truth needed to explain the
American position.
Meanwhile Mos-
cow is slowly and successfully mobi-
lizing international opinion to demand
an end to those experimenta upon
(whose discoveries and success the
safeguarding of democracy may ultimately éepend.