Hmm, it was not quite a press release, but it's in the Smyth report from August ...

		cryptonector 8 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival t... Hmm, it was not quite a press release, but it's in the Smyth report from August 12, 1945: https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/publi... (search for diffusion).