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Died. Rear Admiral Ellis Mark Zacharias, 71, brash, bristly intelligence and psychological warfare expert, a self-styled World War II Cassandra who claimed to have predicted Pearl Harbor nine months in advance, and to have ferreted out a Japanese surrender feeler 13 days before Hiroshima, yet never convinced the Navy's topside of either story; of a heart attack; in West Springfield...
...prevent that, the Soviets made what seemed to be a few concessions. They agreed to sign a treaty banning all easily detectable blasts in the atmosphere, in space, in the sea, and underground tests of more than 19 kilotons-about the size of the bomb that fell on Hiroshima. In return for that, they demanded that both sides declare a "voluntary" ban on smaller, underground nuclear explosions, which are virtually undetectable without inspection. Meanwhile, said the Soviets, they would heed a U.S. call to work jointly toward better detection methods. To the U.S., the Soviet carrot looked tasty. Russia seemed...
...pilots to strike from the Marianas against Japanese cities at previously unheard-of low altitudes for the huge planes. In the first such raid, on March 10, 1945, 300 planes burned out 256,010 Tokyo buildings. LeMay then helped plan the world's first atomic destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
Grilled in a BBC interview about his first, pre-Hiroshima months as British Prime Minister, Lord Attlee, now 78, pleaded a layman's ignorance about the implications of the atomic bomb. "I'm no scientist, you know," he said. "I knew nothing about it except that it was a device of some kind to produce a very big explosion." Washington, Attlee insisted, had not kept him fully informed. "But," he added, sucking on his pipe, "that is a kind of post-mortem thought...
...HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR. Hiroshima rises again as a redeeming love in this dreadful, beautiful film by France's Alain Resnais...