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...answer becomes understandable when the two fin-tailed monsters are identified. They were the first operational A-bombs ever built. "Little Boy," the slimmer of the two, was a duplicate of the 10-ft.-long, 9,000-lb. bomb that decimated Hiroshima. The 10,000-lb., spheroid "Fat Man," with its 5-ft. girth, crushed Nagasaki. Between them, the two bombs, each packing the punch of 20,000 tons of TNT, accounted for more than 200,000 casualties and dumped the world unceremoniously into the responsibilities of the nuclear...
Whatever tragedy the sight of Little Boy and Fat Man recalled, it was less personal than the recurrent horror that still afflicts former Army Air Corps Major Claude Eatherly, pilot of the reconnaissance plane that fingered Hiroshima for A-bomb attack. It was Eatherly. looking down from his 6-29, who found Hiroshima free of cloud cover and selected it as a target. Guilt feelings for his part in that historic flight left Eatherly suffering from "neurosis with psychotic manifestations," and he was discharged from the service. He has not yet recovered...
Nuclear science is on the verge of developing a "third-generation weapon as radically different from the H-bomb as the H-bomb was from the Hiroshima-type A-bomb," warned Thomas E. Murray, former member of the Atomic Energy Commission and consultant to the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, last week. The Administration's moratorium on nuclear testing, drawn out to two years by the foot-dragging test-ban talks with the Russians at Geneva, has stopped U.S. progress cold-but "I take it for granted that the Soviet Union is actively developing nuclear technology along this...
...disclosure catches a bemused man kind, 15 years after Hiroshima, still without any sort of international control on manufacture of atomic weapons. Unable to agree on anything else, the U.S., Russia, Britain and France have been content to rest their atomic monopoly on the prohibitive cost and inordinate difficulty of building the monster gaseous-diffusion plants and plutonium-yielding reactors in which they carry out large-scale production of fissionable materials. Now the West German scientific breakthrough appears to have smashed that barrier and opened the way to atoms for anybody with the technologists competent to handle them...
...engrossing picture, and there are several exceptional scenes in which the Old Originality shines through. But although he uses the film medium well, and achieves a skillful montage effect at points, Chabrol offers little that is creative. Whereas the contemporary French cinema has often been artistic in its freshness (Hiroshima, Mon Amour is an outstanding example), here it is mechanized in its very "artisticness...