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...best-documented medical aftereffects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the leukemia that developed in many of the survivors. Those who received the heaviest doses of atomic radiation have been eight times more likely than other Japanese to get the disease. Now a new chapter of research by the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission* reveals what has long been suspected: that those who lived through the A-bombings are more susceptible than others to a whole variety of cancers...
...firms moved from St. Louis to its suburbs in spite of the city's effort to retain them by making tax concessions. In Detroit, the migration has turned into such a stampede that former Mayor Jerome Cavanagh cracks that he plans trips to "Detroit's sister cities-Nagasaki and Pompeii." Pan American and Delta airlines recently shifted their downtown sales and reservations offices to suburban Southfield, which has also attracted the headquarters of Advance Mortgage Corp. The publishing firm of R. I. Polk and the Michigan Automobile Club are about to quit the city. Circus World is moving...
...convicted of crimes involving the unrestricted bombing of defended civilian populations. The Allies had done the same thing in order to destroy enemy industrial centers. Today the U.S. may be hard put to justify the fire-bombing of Dresden or the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all of which seem less necessary in retrospect than they did at the time. But so far, bombing a defended city is not a specific war crime. Given the goal of saving U.S. troops' lives (the rationale for Hiroshima), it can still be called a military necessity. In North Viet Nam, moreover...
...attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. Power was not a temporizer: he believed that war, once started, could only be halted by crushing force. He led the March 1945 fire-bomb raid on Tokyo that killed 84,000 Japanese, was a planner of the A-bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and fashioned the peacetime SAC into the most devastating instrument of destruction ever known...
Robert Jay Lifton is not a Jungian. Often, in fact, his psychological work tends to border on descriptive sociology. (His works on the psychological effects of nuclear holocaust on the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have become classics in the field.) In his latest book, Dr. Lifton has also raised some challenging questions about attempt a general philosophical statement about the boundaries which define life in an age of revolution. The very boldness of the idea-a Yale psychology professor is attempting to define the nature of man's existence-is enough to make the book noteworthy...