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...first trustworthy account of the aftereffects of the atomic bomb came last week from a Dutch surgeon who was in a Nagasaki prison camp when the bomb fell. (Of 200 Allied prisoners, four were killed; four died later). The surgeon, Captain Jacob Vink, challenged one Jap claim: he doubts that anyone entering an atom-bombed city afterwards would suffer from radioactivity. But he verified the fact that many (though not all) of the bomb victims who seemed to be recovering collapsed and died several weeks later. Their symptoms...
Bill Laurence has known more about the atomic bomb, at every stage of its development, than any other reporter. A topnotch newsman for the New York Times, he had watched, and ably reported, almost every big science story for 15 years. An intense, untidy little man with odd habits (he spent hours placing mirrors just-so in his apartment, so that no matter where he stood he could look out on Manhattan's East River), Laurence showed up at the Times pretty much when he pleased. He thought up his own assignments, often spent weeks on one story...
When the Army had its atom bomb ready, it commandeered Laurence to write the official releases which explained the bomb. He watched the famed July 16 experiment in the New Mexico desert. Then the Army packed him off to the Pacific, to fly over Nagasaki. Last week, at last, the Army released his account of the Nagasaki raid. Thirty days after it happened, it was still top page-one news in the New York Times, and in many another paper...
Since the atom bomb hit Hiroshima, Jap reports have played on the U.S. conscience with reports of weird, agonized deaths of civilians who had appeared untouched by the explosion (see MEDICINE). The plain implication: radioactivity from the bombs would go on killing men and vegetation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki for years to come...
...greasewood, yucca and bunch grass selected as site for the test explosion is known in Manhattan Project doubletalk as "Trinity." Most of the land once belonged to a rancher named MacDonald, whose wrecked ranch house was the first human habitation to be blasted by the terrible force of exploding atoms. Ten thousand yards from the test site are the two low, heavy-timbered buildings, banked to the roof with earth, which housed the bomb-exploding generator and observation instruments (known in atom-scientist code as "Beta" and "Ten Thousand"). Nearby stand two white-painted Sherman tanks used to examine...