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...second A-bomb used in war, much less publicized but far more powerful than the first bomb dropped on Hiroshima, fell on Nagasaki (pop. 250,000). Last week, 3½ years after the city's fiery ordeal, TIME Correspondent Sam Welles paid it a visit. His report...
...Nagasaki is surprisingly full of smiles and surprisingly empty of hate. The A-bomb epicenter is a small park of less than an acre around a low, earthen mound topped by a plain wooden shaft. Seven young arborvitae trees circle the mound. A sign in English and Japanese states that 18,409 homes were destroyed, 29,739 people killed and 91,081 injured when a compact mass of plutonium "exploded in the air just above here...
...Atom" has received the approval of the American Scientific Affiliation and the recommendation of the Atomic Energy Commission. It includes actual photographs of the atomic bomb explosions at Nagasaki and Bikini and of scientific apparatus used in atomic research...
Nothing to Sell. Many times throughout his book Dr. Wiener stops in a cold sweat and looks a few years ahead: "Long before Nagasaki and the public awareness of the atomic bomb," he says, "it had occurred to me that we were here in the presence of another social potentiality of unheard-of importance for good and for evil . . . The first industrial revolution . . . was the devaluation of the human arm by the competition of machinery . . . The modern industrial revolution is similarly bound to devalue the human brain at least in its simpler and routine decisions . . . The human being of mediocre...
...advertisement was right about above-ground explosions like those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There radiation was the third hazard, since most of the radiation went upward and was absorbed into the atmosphere. But the Army failed to say that with underwater explosions like the Bikini bomb blast (as TIME reported), radiation is the No. I hazard...