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From the dinky little salvage vessel Daiei Maru (a misnomer, for it means Great Prosperity), Oyama plunged into Nagasaki Bay in hopes of salvaging enough scrap iron to make it worth the effort and risk. Four times he went down 192 ft. with nothing untoward. Raised to the Daiei Maru's deck after his fifth, hour-long descent, he collapsed in pain. His shipmates, unversed in medicine but with a well-grounded fear of the bends, slapped Oyama's helmet back on him, stuffed his diving suit with lead weights, and dumped him back over the side-down...
Without being formally defined, such a priority system has been used on battlefields before. The Research Institute's Colonel Joseph R. Shaeffer points out that the Japanese learned at Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the "only real good they could do" was in treating minor injuries. The system has also been applied in disasters by many a civilian doctor caught with more emergency cases than he could handle. "We don't talk of 'abandoning men,' " says Colonel Shaeffer. "But doctors should not be involved in three-hour operations; they should be out saving lives...
...Thanks largely to the independents, world shipyards today are busier than in any peacetime year in history. From Norway to Nagasaki, slipways are jammed with new hulls. Though they are busily expanding capacity to handle the boom, some shipyards cannot promise delivery before 1962. Anticipating a continued upsurge in world trade (which has already soared 50% since 1948). shipowners are ordering giant new ore carriers, combination ore-petroleum ships, roll-on, roll-off carriers to haul loaded trucks and vans, fast new freighters to slake the world's impatient thirst for machinery and steel, coal, wheat, and other basic...
...delayed effect of radiation has already been recognized in humans. Dr. William C. Moloney of Tufts Medical School and Dr. Robert D. Lange report in Blood, The Journal of Hematology on leukemia (blood cancer) among Japanese atom-bomb survivors. Most people near the centers of explosion at Hiroshima and Nagasaki died of heat or blast. Some survived these effects, but got heavy doses of gamma rays and neutrons. In Hiroshima, 750 people who had been within 1,000 meters (3,300 ft.) recovered from their radiation sickness and remained apparently well for years. Then an unusual number of them showed...
...early-type fission bombs killed mostly by blast and heat, which people who had just experienced World War II knew about. Radioactivity, however, was new, and therefore doubly feared. Undetected by any of man's senses, it killed mysteriously. The few Japanese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki who died of radiation sickness received more horrified sympathy than the many who were burned to death or blown to smoking shreds...