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Hiroshima and its fellow bomb victim, Nagasaki, are the most pro-U.S. cities in Japan. American visitors are bombarded with questions as to how Hiroshima can be made a Mecca for peace-loving pilgrims. Hiroshimans feel that The Bomb purged them of all war guilt; perhaps that is why Hiroshima is free of the paralysis that palsies most of the rest of the world...
...statues of the horses he loves, David Lilienthal was doing his best to sever the connection once & for all. He was trying, with every hope of success, to create the most destructive weapon in the world-an atomic bomb even bigger than the bomb which had wiped out Nagasaki and Hiroshima just two years...
What finally happened to the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? As the first guinea pigs of atomic warfare, they are still being watched closely-and will be for many a year to come-by U.S. and Japanese doctors...
Heredity. What worried the doctors most was the effect the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs will have on generations yet unborn. The full effects on the victims' descendants may not show up for many generations (atomic radiation usually changes only recessive genes, and the effects, if any, should not show up until a recessive mates with a recessive). The investigators hunted for mutations among Hiroshima's fast-breeding fruit flies and plants-with inconclusive results. But they did receive reports of malformed babies (most of them born dead). The doctors were not able to make an accurate count...
...improved bomb, one thousand times as powerful as the "Model T" used at Nagasaki, might atomize an area of three or four hundred square miles (roughly the area of New York City). But Dr. Teller is not convinced that such direct use would be the most profitable...