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...after a 6-17 crash at sea, near Espiritu Santo. He went to Italy, where he commanded the Fifteenth Air Force for 20 months, and then came back to the Pacific as commander of the Twentieth Air Force, whose 6-293 dropped the A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...Bomb at Nagasaki...
...nominal' (Nagasaki-type) atomic 'bomb, the heat cooks the skin up to two miles away. But if a person happens to be looking at the detonation, he will certainly be blinded permanently at more than four miles away, and even at a greater distance his eyesight will be seriously damaged...
...Nagasaki bomb fall at about a distance of three miles away ... I was a civilian internee at a camp in a suburb of Nagasaki, and on the morning of Aug. 9, 1945, was out on a hillside . . . cutting grass for two cows which we had to keep for our Japanese guards ... A plane swooped over my head . . I watched it as it was about to disappear over a low ridge which lay between me and the center of the city . . . Suddenly, there was a tremendous flash, far brighter than the sun . . . The next thing I knew, I was lying...
...with radioactivity. Hopefully, FCDA men announced that the bomb shelters in the cellar of House Two would have saved real inhabitants. Perhaps said dubious AEC officials, but it would be helpful to remember a few facts. The "Diagnostic Device" was less powerful than the primitive A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki. It probably packed the punch of a single atomic artillery shell. (Its energy equivalent: 15,000 tons of TNT as compared to 20,000 tons at Nagasaki.) In an actual attack, if an A-bomb exploded higher than 300 feet above ground, its radiation would penetrate cellar shelters with more...