Many Ideas of Explosives and Gases Dispelled Proiessor Haldane in a lecture on Science and Future Warfare" at the Royal United Service Institution recently declared that among the romantic notions of future wars was the idea that explosives very much worse than any at present known would be used. This was pretty fair for nonsense, he did not think iP possible et to explo: ves much more officio n they were now. Nor, he de was there prospect wi the next fe turies of blowin with bombs release activity of whic had written. up the artificial radio-
Mr H. G. Wells Other cherished ideas which the Professor dispelled centred on terrible new gases; warfare carried of with the aid of microbes; and the total destruction of London by aeroplanes. It was possible, he pointed out, that we bad not yet exhausted the full lêst of poisonous volatile compounds, but he did not believe in the probability of anything much worse than rd gas hi produced. It was worth noting that m.ustard gas was known and fully described in 1886, and that nothing worse was discovered between that cate and 1917, when it was first used in the war
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