Enrico Fermi Defends The Los Alamos Lab

(Original Caption) 10/4/1954-Chicago, IL: Dr. Enrico Fermi, noted Nuclear physicist, tells a press conference, October 4th that statements in a new book, "The Hydrogen Bomb," are bound to "produce dissention" and retard the atomic program. The book written by James R. Shepley and Clay Blair, Jr., claims that scientists, particularly those at the Los Alamos weapons laboratory, "dragged their fett" in development of the hydrogen bomb. Fermi said he was "deeply perturbed" by this implication . "It is my conviction," said he, "that the Los Alamos laboratory has deserved the gratitude the Nation through its development of both the A and H weapons."