MYSTERIOUS DEATHS
EFFECT OF ATOMIC BOMBS. (Rec. 1.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 22 Japanese people are reported to have died mysteriously a few days alter the atomic blasts. Most likely they suffered from the eflects of the neutron stream and concentrated neutrons, says the science editor of the Associated Press. Such rays have been produced in the University' of California and applied to animals which have died in a few days because the rays destroyed a lot of the white blood corpuscles. '1 he neutron rays from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were mostly in the air. It was also likely that neutrons streaming from the bomb flash struck particles of earth, causing them to emit their own streams of neutrons and become temporarily injurious. The outstanding fact about all these rays, however, is the ease with which the air and earth disperse them to the point of harmlessness.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 226, 23 August 1945, Page 6
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