File 28 - Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings assembled by Thomson re the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan

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THMG/D/28

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Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings assembled by Thomson re the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan

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  • 1945 (Creation)

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Thomson, Sir George Paget (1892-1975), knight, physicist and Nobel laureate
(1892-1975)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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11 cuttings, some of them from the Romeike Press Clippings agency:
Front page of The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, 7 Aug. 1945 with article headed "Men Who Made the Atomic Bomb," with G. P. Thomson's photograph. Another cutting featuring the article "The Atom At War."
"British Statements Reviewing the Allies' Cooperation in Development in Historic Missile", New York Times, 7 Aug. 1945
"'We Raced Nazis and Won,' Churchill Says in Review," Hartford, Conn. Times, 7 Aug. 1945
"Who Owns the Atomic Bomb? How Can It Be Guarded?" Youngstown, Ohio Vindicator, 8 Aug. 1945
"Uranium Ore Supply," Chemical & Engineering News, Easton, PA, 10 Aug. 1945
Cutting featuring a photograph of the mushroom cloud over Nagasaki in The Times, 13 Aug. 1945
"Meeting Challenge of the Atomic Bomb," Syracuse, N.Y. Herald American, 23 Sept. 1945
"10-Ton Atomic Bomb Practical -- Oliphant," Portland Oregon Oregonian, 3 Oct. 1945
2 short cuttings from unidentified newspapers

Folder also includes a set of typescript notes on 'Delayed Neutrons resulting from fission' reviewing current state of research immediately after Second World War.

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