![]() ![]() ![]() That posting included declassified internal reports on the deadly impact of radiation in the aftermath of the August 1945 bombings. The memo was published today for the first time as part of an update to last year’s Electronic Briefing Book on how Manhattan Project scientists estimated and calculated the harmful impacts of nuclear radiation while Groves continued to downplay and make misleading statements about its effects. Senior Los Alamos scientist George Kistiakowsky wrote that Groves had “stuck his neck out a mile” when he denied reports of radiation deaths and apparently refrained from sending him the September 1 memo (Document 21), which contradicted Groves’ assertion. Washington, D.C., Aug– A newly declassified memorandum from the weeks after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki confirmed early reports of fatal radiation disease even as Manhattan Project director General Leslie Groves characterized the accounts from Japan as “propaganda.” The September 1, 1945, report from staffers at Los Alamos Laboratory on the “Calculated Biological Effects” of the atomic bombings listed death by exposure to gamma ray radiation as one of several possible lethal consequences of the bombings. Groves “Stuck His Neck Out a Mile” in Denying Radiation Effects Los Alamos Official: Bombs “Could Not Have Done More Damage,” Extent of Destruction “Exactly That Predicted” ![]() FOIA Advisory Committee Oversight Reportsįirst Manhattan Project Report on “Biological Effects” of Atomic Bombs Confirmed Radiation Deaths Gen. ![]()
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