U.S. ARMY’S VIEW

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24640, 9 August 1945, Page 5

U.S. ARMY’S VIEW

Bomb Not Seen As Ending War (Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, August & “In spite of the use of the atomic bomb against Japan, the United States War Department insists that it cannot reduce the Army below the 7,000,000 total set for the end of June, 1946,” says the Washington correspondent of the “New York Times.” “Army officials are disinclined to discuss the new bomb, but it is evident from the tone of guarded comments that the bomb is not regarded by those responsible for winning the war as the weapon which itself will end the war.

“On the contrary, high Afmy circles are concerned lest the impression that the bomb will obviate the necessity for maintaining the Army at the number already fixed should become 100 widely accepted by the public.”

Asked why Hiroshima was chosen rather than Tokyo as the first target, an Army spokesman replied: “Maybe we did not want to risk hitting the Tokyo Government buildings and destroying (he very people who may make the decision to surrender.”

Military circles in Washington are resigned to the fact that the atomic bomb will be developed in the future by other nations, but they point out that the original discoverers will always have certain advantages. It is stated emphatically tjiat Japan had not worked on such a bomb.