Word: buettner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mushroom of smoke rising into the sky . . . The skin of my bare arms seemed as if it had been held before a hot fire and was tingling ... I was wearing dark-tinted spectacles at the time ... I thought this fact might be of interest to Ophthalmologist Rose and Biophysicist Buettner...
Sightseeing during an atomic bombing is unwise; it may destroy the sight of anyone who is otherwise safe from the heat and blast. This is the warning of Ophthalmologist Heinrich W. Rose and Biophysicist Konrad Buettner, who looked into the matter at the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine...
...blinded at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; perhaps few people were looking into the sky at the right moment. If modern bombs attract more sightseers, they will blind them at greater distances than four miles, for they are far brighter than the nominal bombs were. Hydrogen bombs, say Drs. Rose and Buettner, will probably blind from as far away as they can be seen...