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In one moment of absolute hell, 100,000 perished NIGHT OF HORROR THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD
I was a bright clear morning, Far
below the droning Super-Fortress, Hiroshima sprawled map-like in the early sunlight, each building and tall chimney sharply etched.
But the grim-faced American fliers tensed over their instruments were too busy to notice.
A beautiful morning but Super-Fortress "Enola Gay" had come to change all that.
The bumb plunged away,
"Enola Gay" got out fast.
A moment inter, it was as if the sun had burst in the city's heart.
Blinding flash
The story of the war's big- gest, darkest secret had begun long years before... as long ago an 1911, when Rutherford discovered the nucleus of the stam.
For a quarter of a century,
There was a brilliant, blind- Physicists had plodded step by ing flash of light. And what step towards the formula that had been the Japanese city of would set free the atom's huge Hiroshima became a vast mush- store of natural energy. room of boiling, smoky dust,
For 20,000 feet it rošť, sweeping up into ita molten maw the splintered frap- ments of 300,000 homes. For four minutes Hiroshima boli- ed; then, from its centre, a white cloud plumed 40,000 feet up.
Dust clouds swirled over the On the outer shattered, city. fringes fires broke out as gas mains exploded and buildings crumbled.
In 1939, urandum fission was discovered and almost at once
Anniversary Story
by
GUY JONES
Man had taken his biggest American résearchers leap in the art of self-destrus tion on this fateful morning of August 6, 1945-just 15 years ago last week.
The first atom bomb had
INOFE
There was a brilliant, blinding flash of light!
began Harbour, the green light shone seelding military uses for atomic in Washington for the bomb.
The pace was quickening. centres The race towards the big bang
had begun.
energy.
Soon, in research scattered across the courtinent, more and more Government
"safe." They would not destroy New Mexico, with remarkable
light effects. the earth.
But In strict secrecy, the vast
a historic telegram, new enterprise took shape. In fached to U.S. President Harry. June, 1942, the production of S. Trumen in Potsdam, told m plutonium and U-235, and the very different story, assembly of atomic weapons, The new bomb worked. A was handed to the Corps of hundred thousand men bed not
waited Engineers.
over two-and-u - half years for rothing Expenditure of 2,500 million dollars bad not boo wasted, "
Secret plant
exploded with the biggest money was being staked on the Unbelievable risks mexico, bang in the history of the quest for the Jet Age philo word,
End of a war
One big bang had brought the end of a bitter global war within sight.
It had also taken a dreadful toll of 100,000 killed or fatally the wounded, and wrought havoc of 20,000 tons of T.N.T.
And it began a terrifying race towards oblivion that man was to be hard pressed to halt.
sopher's stone a controlled nuclear chain reaction.
A special committee of the National Academy of Sciences, appointed in April, 1941, re ported in November to Fresident Roosevelt that a fission bomb of superlatively destructive force could be made.
take years. It would would cost hundreds of millions
I
of dollars. But on December
Airerice has a staggering new The Oak Ridge laboratory in Tennessee became the closest weapon destined to revolutionise guarded eighty square miles in war and change the doorse of the world.
history. Moreover, a committee And at Los Alamos, New of top men was urging its the use against eminent scientists, immediatè werking under Dr J. Robert enemy.
hush-hush Truman faced up to big hilltop plant in the desert, agonising decision. When Radio announced that the fight wou'd continue, despite an checked in under false names Tokyo
ultimatum, nothing could stop to ensure security.
the bomb
American and British scien- Oppenheimer at a tists, working together, took risks they could scarcely assess with material millions of times more active than any used be fore,
Then a new hazard halted them. Would an exploding atom bomb trigger of one sare vast chain reaction that thousand. would end it all?
Mcre research established
6, 1941, the day before Pearl that atomic explosions were
might
All wore red, blue or while badges to denote their degree of security freedom. Security mattered. This secret
American lives by the
On July 16, 1945, Chicago newspapas reported the exple sion of a munitions dip in
Meanwhile, two planes ha rushed the bomb's deadly core to San Francisco Bay. There, even the captain of the Ameri- can cruiser Indianapolis wis refused information about tha bulky crutes that were swung cautiously aboard.
At a moment of supreme interest in the Commons and that had
the Mail begins to analyse The Secret Men of Power
ΤΟ
those who believe
that the real rulers
of Britain are not the but elected politicians
Sir
faceless men' of power behind the scenes, I com- mend 56-year-old Solly* Zuckerman worthy of the closest study.
ag
The
ever-spreading Sir Solly
by CHAPMAN PINCHER
work
Five thousand miles away," and ten days later, the crates were unloaded at the
become one of the world's biggest airfields.
It was next stop Hiroshima for the bomb, But its awful toll of human. He began before that.
Horror
On passage from the Pacific island to Leyte, the Indianapolis was nunk early on July 30 by two Jap torpedoes, Ot the 1,198 who had milled in her 903 survived the blast and were plunged into the sea.
For four days they endured the full horror of sun, thirst and wounds. At-Leyte base, pcbody even realised, they were
overdue passing aircraft
spotted survivors, the tour nightmare days had killed off all save 300; and many of these died later,
They died to deliver the bomb. It was a grim start to a grim look
If it is true that such men operate the strings which activate the out- ward show, then nobody has more strings in the hands than the short-
Six days after the Indiana- polls slid "Into the Pacific statured professor fron
depths, the super-pilots of the Birmingham who is the
top-secret B09th composite Government's chief.
roared off from Tinian,
The cream of America's flers scientific adviser on de-
were away in a thundering
the fence and a host of other
They liked the way his con- atomic armada to foll **The Functional One way to achieve it is to influential things.
Affinities of Man, Monkeys, and become a major operator of the versation is peppered with stream of history into a new
(If he has to course. Whitchall "machine" bidlogical quips. It is also fue that the Apes should be appointed. In hidden scientists now ocentrol Our fact, ever since the war he has which dally increases its con- leave the table a typical remark is "Modesty has ruined more destiny, then this Sour served on secret defence com- trol over our lives.
Like all men driven by ambie kidneys than bad liquor.") African-born docter-zoologist mittees.
tion Sir Solly is not without So when he retumed to epes qualifies for the tile of Chief Controller.
Sir Solly was brought in by enemies. His appointment was after the war-they still go wild While showing a visitor round Sir Norman Brook, that other so deeply resented by career with excitement when they see the London Zoo, of which he is faceless figure who lords it over Civil Servants that several con him at the Zoo the Govern
Civil Service and the most effcelive secretary to the
as tenders quit the Service in a ment continued to make use of
Yet his circle of close his flair for committeemanship. date, he remarked that the camel Cabinet Secretary has the ear of huff.
friends is wide and reaches into Some believe that his secret looks as though it has been put the Prime Minister. together by a committee,
Brook's prime purpose was to the stratosphere socially, and ambition is to be Defence Minis Yet it is through sdrolt recruit a scientist willing to intellectually. manipulation of committees that join the conspiracy to assas his power and influence spring. sinate the Blue Streak rocket which Zuckerman had always
Secrets
opposed,
Ideas
FCC
Bombing conditions were ideal over Hiroshima, the weather. scout plane reported to "Enola Gay,"
This was the moment. The bomb was released And the air darkened with the biggest explosion the world had me knows
In Hiroshima it had been a warm, golden morning, with ler in a Socialist Government,
leaves whispering under He codd do this in the House
cloudless sky, of Lords and is a likely candi-
Now there was only death, date for at least a life peerage,
He has long-established lines rubble, and the screams of the on the In addition, as an old-school Zuckerman, Jexped the social with the Socialists. In so far as maimed. Of some vittims only Civil Servant who abhors the moat by marrying the daughter Prime Minister Attlee ever had their shadows, burned
a scientific adviser in the style stones, remained, a
But the terror had hardly yet He is chairman of the Defence rise of the white-coated techni- of the Merquis of Reading.
Winston Churchill's Policy Committee clan to equal status with the breached the intellectual for of Sir
private "Prot." Lord Cherwell. begun. Research
he tresses of the Athenaeum. and
(It was A second atom bomb, qa which frames the Government's pin-striped administrator,
sheer it was Zuckerman, detence programme and through hoped to cut down the impor Royal Society by
wickedly suggested after Cher-Nagasaki, killed the last wan- it the nation's strategy and lance of the post by getting endeavour.
well took his title from the river ing Jap hope of conquest, With Sir Solly to do it part-time. diplomatic.posture.
He was frustrated in this and Many "self-made men" are flowing by Oxford University peace, the Americana set up the He is deputy chairmen of the Advisory Council on Scientific Sir. Solly has since found a screaming evidence of unskilled that Zuckerman should take a Atomic Bomb Casually Commit Pokay to which every major seven-day working week too labour. Not so Sir Solly. He tille from the Grand Union sim to sit for 25 years is Japan came to Britain as a gay and Canal which flows by Birming Its discoveries, out of the ruin Issue from space, research to short,
distinguished young doctor ham). when he was 21 and switched
mmpower referred.
He is the nation's scientific
representative at Nato. He a
chairman of
Na
Power...
the.. Resources Committee sad on The Defence Minister. Mr
to studying monkeys.
The war switched him back
the B.B.C. Advisory Commitee, Watkinson, now depends for his to studying men and put him his first. committee - In addition he dominates several advice on Zuckerman and Eari on secret committees of overriding Mountbatten.
less markeys and men. induence.
Make Zuckerman Is a
Lures to my best lujuries
Influence
Sir Solly he maintained this Unk by friniship with Hugh Gaskell, and hic infimence me: have helped to keep the official ment and pacifisạn.
and the survivors, can hardly matter more. The post-wa world lives uneasily in the knowledge that atom bombs win wars but may endanger the biological future of humanity.
In the psychiatric ward of a Texes Veterans. Hospitalar plek and worried man sat brooding last year, tech
His gulit complex went back
bers
In his spare time
me he looks impeng figure but if any laue Later he joined Mountbatten park Hoe off unilateral diamini after the Zoo and, is nominally has to be resolved by a bettle in Combined Operations, and Whatever his long-term fourteen years to the two trips professor of
anatomy at of willbetween them the earl longed the bombing of Ger- ambitions in the compact once he made flying the lead Birmingham University. startuo, hopeleády, outgamed modny with the air chicle,
to
with the bulging: briefings, in over Hirost When he succeeded" Sic fred. What inckie? Zaid time
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