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...dangerous social consequences of our development. There is no secret of the atomic bomb. In my opinion, in two to five years other countries can also manufacture bombs, and bombs tens, hundreds, or even thousands of times more effective than those which produced such devastation at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This country with its concentrated industrial centers is entirely vulnerable to such weapons; nor can we count on, or even expect, effective countermeasures. Unless strong action is taken within the near future toward a positive control, this country will be drawn into an armament race which will inevitably end in catastrophe...
...meeting, Henry Wallace and others cited scientific opinion that the secret could not be kept, argued that the bomb be made available to the United Nations Organization. Said Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps: "The thing I fear is that as the months and years pass the story of Nagasaki and Hiroshima will fade into the background and that . . . this new power of destruction . . . will cease to have its compelling force upon our political actions...
According to the Japs, the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki had radioactive effects so deadly and persistent that "everything still living was waiting to die" long after their explosions. U.S. authorities minimize these reports. The atomic bombs, they claimed, were deliberately exploded high in the air; consequently their gamma rays would be spread out thin and their radioactive byproducts dissipated in the atmosphere...
Since the atom bomb hit Hiroshima, Jap reports have played on the U.S. conscience with reports of weird, agonized deaths of civilians who had appeared untouched by the explosion (see MEDICINE). The plain implication: radioactivity from the bombs would go on killing men and vegetation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki for years to come...
Aftereffects? Major General Leslie R. Groves and Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, military and scientific parents of the atom bomb, parried all questions about the bomb itself. But about its aftereffects they were anxious to talk. Data on Hiroshima and Nagasaki will not be complete until scientists now on the spot have finished their tests. But all three atomic explosions, said General Groves, were "comparable" in power. Important difference was that New Mexico's test bomb went off only 100 ft. above ground, those in Japan "much higher." Hence the effects of their blast, heat and radiation were spread much...