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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week the Berlin radio boasted that Germany has a superbomb which could kill men by concussion and destroy everything within a radius of 1,600 ft. The distance was incredibly great, but death by concussion is an established wartime fact. In an article by Dr. Solly Zuckerman, famed Oxford anatomist, the British medical journal The Lancet last week described the damage, often fatal, which may be done to lungs by explosions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death by Concussion | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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