Hiroshima several months after the atomic bombing. Original Caption: "General view of Hiroshima, Japan as seen from vicinity of 'zero', shows complete devastation as a result of atomic bombing." (Air Force photo from National Archives Website)
Contemporaneous Japanese Reports of Deaths and Lingering Sickness from Radiation Confounded Manhattan Project Leaders Who Treated them as “Propaganda”
General Groves Told U.S. Senate Radiation Sickness Was “A Very Pleasant Way to Die”
But A U.S. Navy Report Found the “Atomic Bomb is the Most Terrible Agent of Destruction Known to Man”
Reexploring the Manhattan Project and the Problem of Radiation Effects, 1944-1945