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...Horne, one of the first Western physicians to enter Nagasaki after the dropping of the atomic bomb, showed slides of the destruction which had occured in that city and in Hiroshima. He described Hiroshima as "a thriving city which physically disappeared in one second, a city in which 80,000 people were dead six weeks after the bomb had fallen...
...world must find a way to prevent war from ever occurring if it is to avoid total destruction on the scale which I saw at Nagasaki," insisted Dr. Herbert W. Horne '37, in a speech last night before the World Federalists...
...present, Castro said, only Batista henchmen with more than six murders to their credit would be dealt with -"The criminals that we shoot will not number more than 400. That is more or less one criminal for each 1,000 men, women and children assassinated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...totting up results of the October series of underground blasts at Yucca Flat, Nev. The results were enough to curl the scientists' hair: instead of a five-kiloton threshold, the real minimum underground blast that could be fully detected was about 20 kilotons-about the size of the Nagasaki-Hiroshima bombs. Science Advisory Committee Chairman James Rhyne Killian Jr. broke the news to President Eisenhower before Christmas, and the U.S. expects to break it to the Russians at Geneva this week. Next soul-searching question: Should the U.S. trust to any stop-test agreement where the chances of deception...
...Fright. What was frightening Japan was the sudden sharp rise in leukemia deaths among supposedly uninjured survivors. In the year preceding last week's anniversary, 65 in Hiroshima and atom-bombed Nagasaki died of "atomic sickness." In the previous twelve months, the total deaths had been 36; in the year before that, 20. Another statistic was just as chilling: of 32,000 children born in Hiroshima in the past 13 years, nearly one in six was deformed or stillborn. U.S. Dr. George B. Darling of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission protests that "the incidence of abnormal births to parents...