The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-05-07
THE ATOMIC B0MB--AN
ASSET OR A CURSE

bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, fol
lowed a few days later by another
and more powerful one on Nagasaki
Japan's third largest city, killing near
ly quarter of a million people and
practically destroying the main part
of the city and making the other UNI
safe for habitatiOn. We don't know
actually how many were killed as
thousands seemingly unhurt would
drop dead days and weeks after the
explosion.
The far more serious consequence
of the explosions was the invisible
deadly radiation which not only af-
fects all living things and clings to
buildings for years but also alters the
hereditary germ characteristics of
vegetable life as well. Seed corn ex-
posed to the ray have shown irregu-
lar shrunken ears in the second gener-
alton and many grainless ears in later
generations signifyiug deterioration
in the genes of the reproductive or
gans, and there are good reasons that
it will afefct the hereditary traits of
human beings the same way.
With cultivated crops we can
break the chain reaction by simply
planting seed not exposed to the ray,
but with human beings this would be
a difficult matter as many would show
no visible signs and others could have
ancestors exposed years back. All
hni fn
ficiently to affect their genes would
have to be isolated, sterilized or de-
stroyed in order to break the chain
reaction and protect the rest of the
human race.
Bikini Tests
CROSSROADS and the Bikini tests
more than proved what scientists al
ready surmised would happen and
conclusively showed that the only
defense against the Atomic bomb is
to destroy it before it destroys the
human race, aggressor as well as vic
tim. What the actual conclusion and
intense heat did not destroy or sink
the deadly radio active rays finished
tests were found to be too unsafe to
work on for more than half hour at
q time. The natives will not be able
to move back to their islands for their
former good fishing and the fish, if
any be left, may contaminate the rest
Of the ocean with their genes by inter
as time goes on and there is
no possible way we can prevent it. |
All in all it goes to show that: our Soc
cial science is a thousand years be- |
hind our inventive skill and the mac
hine age.
Was the Bomb Two Billion
Dollar Blunder?
When we destroyed the main Jap
anese fleet at Leyte in the Philip
pines and took Two Jima, Japan was
licked and when Russia with the help
If Outer Mongolia, took Manchuria
n II days and captured the Guam
ung Army, the Japanese home islands
became a huge concentration camp
md was in no shape to ask for a ne
sotiated peace, nor make any stipu-
atiOns concerning the Emperor, one
If the main actors in Japanese ag
,ression. Had we stopped there, it is
lot likely we would have lost another
nan but HirOhitO, no doubt, would
lave lost his crown and his head too.
'he Quantung Army was liquidated
Without using a single Atomic bomb
no there was nothing to prevent the
apanese Home Army from suffering
he same fate.
The ships sunk at Bikini are still
and there is no way to
revent radioactive fish, if there be
ny left, from spreading it to others
ven a possibility that all the genes
f the fish in the ocean may eventual
Y be affected through inter-breeding.
In the past, more than a dozen civ
izations have fallen by the wayside
lostly through wars of conquest, but
one so completely as with Atomic
eapons which, if used, would likely
fleet the whole human race.
Today the United States is holding
mutli-billion dollar tiger by the tail
nd can't let go only (quote): When
nd if, we feel safe to do "a. E.
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