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Basing his remarks on ex-Secretary of War Stimson's recent article in Harper's Magazine, President Conant discussed the military requirements which forced the use of the bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "Nothing would have been more damaging to our effort to obtain surrender than a warning or demonstration followed by a dud--and this was a real possibility. We had no bombs to waste," he said...
...chapter of that long career came from Stimson's pen, published in Harper's Magazine under the title The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. In it Stimson disclosed that: 1) he, more than any other man, was responsible for the decision to wipe out Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 2) the two bombs dropped were the only ones which the U.S. had in store at the time. He made the record explicit and complete...
...list of targets was presented to Stimson for his approval. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were doomed...
...atomic bomb was genetically bad, said he: "The tremendous amount of radiation generated in the explosion of an atomic bomb produces mutations in the genes, carriers of heredity. These mutations in the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will affect future generations (TIME...
Niblo, a former football coach from Denver, was so sure of success that he started this week to teach the Virginia reel to a group of Nagasaki physical-education instructors. "After all," mused Niblo, "the average Japanese has nothing to do in the evening...