These are the first pictures taken in the Australian National University's School of Physical Sciences at Canberra. Here Australian scientists smashed the atom last year. The school is housed in a specially constructed concrete building with walls 8ft. thick. The futuristic-looking piece of equipment above is the accelerator down which the atomic bullets are fired. In charge of it is Mr. N.F. Bowkitt. When the plant is run in, it will be possible to bombard targets with 600 billion atomic bullets a second. July 16, 1953.