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...raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are justified by ex-President Harry Truman on the ground that "it was my responsibility to force the Japanese warlords to come to terms as quickly as possible with the minimum loss of lives." Most U.S. military men, bent on unconditional surrender, backed him up. Last week the old question got a new airing in the wake of a report by Cowles newspaper Correspondents Fletcher Knebel and Charles Bailey, who were permitted to read still-secret State Department records of the Potsdam Conference while preparing a book about the Abomb. Their key points...
...lethal birds on targets 1,200 miles away with an accuracy within a mile. One sub alone packs 16 missiles, and each shipload of missiles packs the explosive punch of all the bombs expended by both sides in World War II (including the A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...Scotch, bourbon and champagne. There is also a bomb shelter stocked with a three-week supply of food, water and oxygen. For further protection, Hayes installed a heavy green living-room rug that climbs up a glass wall at the press of a button. Says he: "At Hiroshima and Nagasaki, windows blew out and lots of people were killed by glass. The rug catches it. Since the rug is so heavy, it stops gamma rays and neutrons as well...
...Japan, the main difficulties he met concerned religious freedom for foreigners. Persecution of Japanese Christians was modified somewhat in 1871, when a Japanese diplomatic mission to the U.S. and Europe was greeted by a storm of indignation at the recent deportation of 60 Christian heads of families in the Nagasaki* area. In 1873 the shogunate removed the notices posted in every Japanese marketplace and on street corners threatening death to anyone who turned Christian or harbored Christians. But until the end of World War II, Christianity was systematically associated with evildoing; "men now still in their 20s can remember...
...Horne emphasized, "Of course this bomb was a peanut compared to today's hydrogen bombs, and because it was exploded 2000 feet above the ground its permanent radioactivity was relatively small." He added, "Ever since I saw the ruins of Nagasaki I have been convinced that the only answer to the bomb is a United Nations which can settle disputes by law and which has a police force to back up its decisions...