TPrPanrral nT How To Kill 30 In One Second Qne hundred and sixty-one natives of Bikini moved to safety as American Army and Navy 0,000 Peopl Atomic Civilization i Washington there sits a U.S. govern where it studied the effects of the ato By MICHAEL GOLD Famous American Novelist ment commission just returned from Japan, m bomb. The commission hasn’t yet published all its findings, which it must first diges t. But it gave out a few items last week. They are enough to stop the beating of any Falling on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, blue-white ball of energy, bright as a th grees. ‘First, a heat blast hits the land, people inside them charred to death. A mile and a half from the bomb, faces were blistered, forests set afire. Next came the shock wave, a shattering blast of air displaced by the bomb’s expanding gases. Tt Bqueezed the bodies of the “victims, compressed their inter- nal organs, punctured their lungs. After that, their stom- achs and intestines expanded explosively, rupturing the tis- sues. Next, a blast travelling at 500 to 1,000 miles an hour swept the victims over the ground, along with blazing houses and rubble of a city. Some theorists have believed the bomb proved s0 terrible because of the flimsy. Japanese buildings. But the in- vestigators found that modern Japanese buildings of concrete that still remained standing were but empty shells. Hivery- thing inside the walls had been destroyed by blast. “In both stricken cities a few Japanese under shelter survived the heat and blast, only to die later from the invisible gamma rays. Striking through thick concrete the rays disintegrated their blood cells, allowing rag- ing infections to spread through their bodies.” T= members of this com- mission are now studying our American cities, to see how they would stand under atomic bombs. “The prospect is not pleasing,” comes a report, “Rix- PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 10 c