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...children injured in the Hiroshima atomic explosion and the Viet Nam War; near Le Beausset, France. Author of one of the first textbooks in his field and founder of plastic-surgery services in several New York City hospitals, Barsky led the team that treated the "Hiroshima maidens," 25 deformed A-bomb survivors who came to the U.S. for surgery. In 1969 he set up a 50-bed unit in Saigon and spent much of the next six years there helping to treat more than 7,000 children, grafting skin and restoring savagely burned faces and hands...
...Truman Doctrine covering Turkey and Greece; for the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe; and for the founding of NATO. He was prompt and courageous in moving to the defense of South Korea (though less effective in prosecuting the war); he lost no sleep over the decision to drop the A-bomb and later to build the H-bomb. Indeed, one school of revisionist historians now holds Truman just about as culpable as Stalin for the starting of the cold war. The more general view among scholars is that he belongs among the near great Presidents. In the popular memory...
Such a cumulative inventory is long overdue. Though the A-bombings have been the theme of books, memoirs and films, scientific inquiry has been limited. In the immediate postwar years, U.S. occupation authorities openly discouraged filming the devastation or writing about it. When the Japanese regained control, they too resisted appeals for scientific studies, and even today have never passed a basic compensation law for A-bomb victims. Yet through a variety of techniques-autopsies, statistical studies and radiation experiments-Japanese as well as American and European scientists have pieced together the story of the attacks and their grim consequences...
Survivors faced not only the fear of sudden illness and possible genetic damage, but social prejudices as well, limiting their opportunities for jobs, marriage and normal lives. Some even refused to apply for government medical care lest they become publicly known as A-bomb victims...
Like most of the other scientists who had spent four years of their lives working on the A-bomb, Oppenheimer must have been relieved when the bomb actually exploded. As his brother, also a physicist, pointed out, the first reaction of most of the scientists was, "Thank God it worked." But though he may have, as he recalled in an interview years later, looked on in silent admiration when the bomb exploded, he was hardly silent in the years that followed...