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Senator MAGNUBON
We want &ll the information Jou can give u8,
becaugo the American public wants to know
Dr. CowPTON
Well in Hirosbima,
radius of about 2 kilometers
from where the bomb went off w4S completely destroyed
TOLD
when we thought we were going to
there, that there
wag nO
Doinw’
in
because there was
to gee; and I said “Wbat
about the
Boingob
of dead corpge?’
recently been through
Corregidor,
where
the
odor
ig pretty
terrible
Still.
They
gaid,
“Corpges?
There are no corpges
There is nothing.
Within & radius
of 2 kilometergs, there is not binge:”
Senator
What is & kilometer?
Dr CoMPTON.
‘ooNZRog;
kilometers would be & little over & mile.
Then
for
¬her mile-and-&-half radius there, the destruction is &bout
what it would have been
from
saturated
bomb area, and
then
Senator MAGNUBON. About & 3-mile
Dr. CoxPToN. A 3-mile radius
Beyond that 3-mile radius, thero
ig gpotty destruction, whero &pparently there must have been
effects, where echo from this blast from two different sources
{focnsiag
meet, Or going of that Rort, gnd up to &g much n8 10 mileg there
wag some
damage, but
jpotty.
It wag complete within 3 miles.
report
The atomic fragment that fell on Hiroshima was less than 2 kilometers away.
Destroyed everything:
Senator Magnuson
Want a kilometer?
They
get
‘notingno’
good
!