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...Hero & The Villain. Eatherly began to enjoy the fuss that people were at last making over him, and he embellished the legend: he had passed the Texas bar; he took part in the raid on Nagasaki; the Air Force had pressured him to stop propagandizing against the atom bomb. "All over the world, I'm the Hiroshima pilot now," he told Huie in a moment of hubris. "A hundred years from now I'll be the only American anybody thinks of in connection with Hiroshima. Maybe they'll remember Truman too. Eatherly and Truman. The hero...
...devising the world's first atomic bomb. Rabinowitch, whose impressive reputation had preceded his arrival in the U.S., was asked to join them. Like many of his colleagues, he was appalled at the project's goal. Soon after the war ended in the holocausts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he and 200 other scientists formed a committee called The Atomic Scientists of Chicago. They felt deeply guilty about their role in unleashing the atom, and they longed for atonement. In 1945 the committee spawned the Bulletin, which was dedicated to stopping the clock before it tolled the midnight...
...atomic age dawned in July 1945 on the New Mexican desert, William L. Laurence of the New York Times was the only reporter there-although security prevented him from printing a word for a month. On Aug. 9, 1945, he rode with the B-29 bomber that obliterated Nagasaki. He once talked Harry Truman into sending a clandestine Government expedition to Africa, in quest of a rare plant from which cortisone could be produced. Leading scientists were more than his informants; they were also his friends, who respected his ability to translate the labyrinthine mysteries of their profession into language...
...Bomb Wing at Virginia's Langley Field. During World War II he flew B-24s over North Africa and Italy, commanded a Guam-based B-29 wing that made the first large-scale fire-bomb raid over Tokyo. Later, he helped plot the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the 1946 A-bomb tests at Bikini...
Though its mines provided the uranium for the Nagasaki and Hiroshima A-bombs, the durable giant known as the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga had never been so preoccupied with explosives as it was last week. Outside the southern Katanga town of Kolwezi, unruly "gendarmes" in the service of Katanga's President Moise Tshombe had wired demolition charges to two huge Union Minière power dams and threatened to push the plunger...