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energy. They observed that the British government which shared the secret of the bomb, advocated late in August, international control of atomic energy. They found that by the beginning of October, the thinking in Washington on the atomic bomb was divided into three groups — those in favor of keeping the bomb secret, those in favor of sharing it with Russia, and those in favor of turning it over to an international organization. At that time it was stated that about 90% of the men in Congress were against any plan to share the secret. By the beginning of November, they learned that the scientists who had created the bomb had begun making speeches throughout the country on the futility of trying to keep the bomb secret, of the uselessness of any known defenses, and advocating that the military control of research on nuclear physics be abolished.
Before six months had passed, they found that an agreement had been reached between the United States, England, Canada and Russia which stated that the problem of controlling the atomic bomb would be referred to the Security Council of the United Nations. They watched with interest the altercation between the scientists who had created the atomic bomb, and the Army who controlled it, and noticed that essentially all the top scientists who had been on the project had returned to universities to carry on other research. They heard discussions about the May-Johnson bill, the MacMahon bill, and the Vandenberg amendment to the MacMahon bill.
By the first of April, this year, the whole problem of control of the atomic
bomb was in such a state that the average individual could not distinguish fact from fancy. There existed, however, in addition to the scientists who created the bomb, a number of men who felt that the people should know the facts regarding the atomic bomb and the future of atomic energy. One of these individuals was Professor Hilden Gibson of the University of Kansas.
Professor Gibson, who is in the Departments of Political Science and Sociology of the University, had attended a meeting in Denver, Colorado, on the atomic bomb last fall. After listening to the statements of the scientists, he became firmly convinced of the importance of this topic to the world at large and to the people of Kansas in particular. Through his
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