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...Navy had been able in some part to avoid the Army manpower crisis, it had its own troubles. Its blueprint for a postwar Navy of 551,880 officers and men, with a 108,000-man Marine Corps, had been shelved by the Senate Naval Affairs Committee until after the atom-bomb tests. Its $6-billion budget for fiscal 1947 had been cut by $2 billion...
Second biggest cause of atom deaths, said Captain Warren, was from flash burn caused by the blinding "atom light"-as bright "as though you had stepped up the intensity...
...more of the 125,000 atom-bomb casualties at Hiroshima and Nagasaki than were first reported came from the explosion's X-ray-like radiations. This fact, which medicine has long suspected, was confirmed last week by Captain Shields Warren, crack pathologist of the U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan...
Many thought it might get dropped on us, or that we'd have to drop one of the damned things on somebody else-and you know who-pretty soon. But if the atom bomb was admittedly a terrible thing, so were faceless men from outer space, microbes of all sizes and the possibility that the earth might hit a star, and they had all been in the American Weekly years ago. Whether you got killed by an atom bomb, an automobile, poison gas, poison whiskey, a blockbuster or a spear, you were dead and probably didn't know...
...Pont's biggest war job was designing, building and operating the $350,000,000 Hanford atom bomb project. For this, its fee was exactly...