What finally happened to the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? As the first guinea pigs of atomic warfare, they are still being watched closely—and will be for many a year to come—by U.S. and Japanese doctors.
Last week a U.S. mission, returned from a checkup of survivors, had a report ready. Its gist: after 18 months, the biological effects of the 1945 Bomb had not disappeared, had not been finally tallied, might still show up in horrible forms years & years from now.
The mission, led by Dr. Austin M. Brues of the University of Chicago and Dr. Paul S. Henshaw of the...