The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-17
BY ANNE GRANGER


 Nau9atuck. Oct. 17-U. s. Senator Brien McMahon, speaking on Atom lc Energy" before an open meeting of the Rotary Club, at WaverIy Inn, Cheshire last night, with nearly l5O in attendance, declared America, which found and developed, with the help of the best scientific brains on earth, the atomic bomb, must reckon with the fact that other nations are going to have this bomb. The book Of nature is open for all men of in- teiligence to read eventually"
 Tt is the essence of wisdom, he urged, that during this period when we have the monopoly on the 9now-how' that we use this time to put into operation system of inter national control that will protect us from the use of this instrument against us"
 Pointing out that because we are 60 close to the most significant events in the history of mankind in the case of atomic energy, he declar- ed: 'sIt is hard to realize the impact that it has had and is going to have on the lives of all of us and the clv- ilization in which we live"
 Destruction By Fire
 In reminding his listeners of the destruction wrought by the bomb that dropped on Hiroshima, Aug. 6. 1945, and on Nagasaka, three days later, he warned that unless we tame this greatest genn of deStruc- tion the world has ever known, and make of 1t force for peace, Amer ica and the world has finally devel- oped that which will destroy man by fire"
 Pictrring what would have been the results had Hitler been armed with these instruments of destruc- tion, he emphasized that our fight ing navy of 246 ships which are be- ing maintained at cost of four thousand million dollars, will be to- tally obsolete as soon as some other nation has the secret of the atomic bomb.
 It Is right that America should lead, he stressed, in the national con- trol of atomic energy if the world is to be preserved.
 "As an American" he declared, T think we are meeting and have met one of the greatest responsibilities that has come to this country .. We have begun to realize the power back of that with which we are dealing"
 Describing the bill brought forth as e result of the work of the Atomic Energy Committee, of which he Is chairman, as Ian act for the demo- cratic control of atomic energy" he declared he believed the bill pre- serves to the United States and other governments that developed the bomb with three million dollars of taxpayers money, the good for all the people which atomic energy contains"
 Happiness Ahead
 we are looking forward to It's use in physics, in medicine, and in in- dustry in way that will bring great CT health, greater wealth and great CT happiness to the people of this country and to the world" he af- firmed.
 Declaring that he advocated plan for international control, he warned no control plan could be successful without an inspection system.
 Discussing the question further, he stated the State Department Com mittee had evolved a plan, after an intensive investigation, which turned over to the American delegate, Ber- nard Baruch, presented to the na- z tions of the earth an intelligent, moral and ethical proposal for the control of the force for the purpose of peace of the earth instead ot for the purpose of destruction.
 The Senator declared he advo- cated that sources of uranium and plutonium, from which the bomb is made, be staked out throughout the earth, and turned over to an international authority, processed in international plants, that every n1iligram be accounted for and that under international authority, "it shall be denatured and the most explosive forces removed, without decreasing its power to do industri- al Work.
 T am not sure," he warned, "that we can devise any 100 percent ef- fective plan, but it is better to have 8 90, 30 or even 70 percent chance of controlling this thing than to live not knowing what was going on behind the curtain, and in continual fear that this great force would obliterate you"
 Important Conference
 The Paris Peace Conference, the Senator reminded his listeners, "is freighted with great importance to the people of the world," adding that if the conference failed in settling boundary lines of European countries and other questions aris- ing, by the proper control of atomic energy, he felt i've would for a period of some time be able to