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ATOMIC PILE SET OFF BY
STARLIGHT
NEW YORE. Aug. 22: A mlnature atomic pile at the New York
Golden Jubilee Exposition was set off tast night by the light of
the star Alloth, located in the constellation of the Great Bear.
The light was picked up simul
taneously by telescopes on top
of the Empire State Building
and in a plane flying at 20,000
feet 180 miles east of New
York. In turn the light energy
was transmitted by radio and
telegraph to the atomic pile.
Energy from the resulting chain
reaction in the pile was sent
to a piece of magnesium on a
ribbon in front of the doors of
the Exposition. The ribbon
split as the magnesium was ig
nited and the Exposition was
The airman of the United
States Atomic Energy Com
mission (Mr. David Lilienthal)
said at the Exposition that the
United States, Britain and
Canada were continuing to
share technical information on
atomic energy. While he dil
not say that this sharing did
not include atomic weapons the
American Associated Press
learnt from the commission
that weapons are not included.
Mr. Lilienthal said that. re
cognising the mutual benefits
that had been obtained .from
wartime cooperation in atomic
energy development, "the three
Governments concerned are
continuing to utilise in an ex
panded way the cooperative
principle in certain limited
areas in which work has been
proceeding separately along the
same lines in two or more of
the three countries."
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