SCIENCE WAS THERE A SOVIET H-BOMB ACCIDENT?
1958The NewsletterJ. H. Bradley Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
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A strong explosive ground shock was observed all over the world on March 25, originating in the USSR. Since then
very heavy fall-out has occurred everywhere, as though from a low-level explosion.
It looks as though a large bomb exploded near the surface of the earth. In this case it would suck up millions. of tons of pulverized rock and soil, just as in the American 1954 test which killed the Japanese fishermen.
It should be very easy to settle this question by analysing the chemical nature of the fall-out particles. Those which fell on the ‘Fortunate Dragon’ were white, being coral coated with radio-active material. Only such particles are known to fall so fast from such a large explosion.
As far as I know no evidence has yet been published on this point.
If I should turn out to be right, it will dispose of the myth that accidental atomic explosions cannot happen. workers councils? J. Waclawek, writing in the Polish Trade Union Review, stated that ‘the workers’ council is, as it were, a works Seym (Parliament), establishing recommendations on the most important matters and controlling the activity of the Management’.
Exactly. This is the real cause of the PUWP’s attack on their independence. Instead of the PUWP backing workers’ councils as the only safeguard of socialist democracy, they want to dominate them from the outside, through the management and party organizations, Gomulka made things clearer still when he said: ‘It should be noted that the principle of workers’ participation in the - Management of the enterprises leads to frequent misunderstandings. Some understand it as delegating the management to the workers. This is wrong.’
Thus the dominant section of the Polish leadership, after vacillating in a central position between the wishes of the