Word: nagasaki
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...week when the first U.S. newsmen entered Hiroshima and Nagasaki and made plain to U.S. readers the appalling devastation of those cities, the State Department issued a formal report on atrocities committed by the Japanese. The timing was not missed by many readers...
...first trustworthy account of the aftereffects of the atomic bomb came last week from a Dutch surgeon who was in a Nagasaki prison camp when the bomb fell. (Of 200 Allied prisoners, four were killed; four died later). The surgeon, Captain Jacob Vink, challenged one Jap claim: he doubts that anyone entering an atom-bombed city afterwards would suffer from radioactivity. But he verified the fact that many (though not all) of the bomb victims who seemed to be recovering collapsed and died several weeks later. Their symptoms...
...story of his, or any newsman's life-but he couldn't write it. There he was, sitting in a Superfort, with arc-welder's glasses to protect his eyes from the glare, watching the atomic bomb bore down on Nagasaki. But able, sad-faced William L. Laurence's lips were sealed. He was the Army's guest...
When the Army had its atom bomb ready, it commandeered Laurence to write the official releases which explained the bomb. He watched the famed July 16 experiment in the New Mexico desert. Then the Army packed him off to the Pacific, to fly over Nagasaki. Last week, at last, the Army released his account of the Nagasaki raid. Thirty days after it happened, it was still top page-one news in the New York Times, and in many another paper...
Wrote Laurence, of the deathly bloom that rose from Nagasaki: "A giant ball of fire rose as though from the bowels of the earth . . . [then] a giant pillar of purple fire, 10,000 feet high, shooting skyward. ... At one stage [it] assumed the form of a giant square totem po'le, with its base about three miles long. Its bottom was brown, its center was amber, its top white. . . . Then, just when it appeared as though the thing had settled down, there came shooting out of the top a giant mushroom that increased the height of the pillar...