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...jampacked industrial cities are wrecked: Kobe 56%, Nagasaki 30%, Nagoya 31%, Osaka 26%, Yokohama 44%. Of Japan's important cities only one was untouched: Kyoto, the shrine city, apparently spared for psychological reasons...
Improved Model. Three days later, the Superfort Great Artiste was out on a similar mission. Major Charles W. Sweeney had a rough trip to Japan in bad weather; his primary target was socked in. Over the second-choice target, Nagasaki, he had just enough gas left for one run. It was begun on instruments, and then there was a hole in the clouds so that the bombardier, Captain Kermit K. Beahan, was able to bomb visually...
...first phase was frightening enough -even to the people whose governments held the secret. They understood that what had happened to Hiroshima and later to Nagasaki only began to measure the atom as a weapon of war, and thus as an extension of politics...
...days before, the Japanese radio still talked of 100 years' resistance, and there seemed little question of Japan's ability to hold out for months at least. Then in shattering succession came atomic bombing and the Russian declaration of war. The concussion destroyed more than Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
Spanish Jesuits, disciples of St. Francis Xavier, went to Nagasaki in the 16th Century. When missionaries returned there in the 16th Century, they were met by people who said: "We too are Christians. Our head is a white-dressed, aged priest called the Pope, who lives far away from here, we don't know where." Last week the second atomic bomb, that wiped out 30% of Nagasaki, devastated with it the oldest Christian center in Japan...