In doing so, he contradicted evidence from his own specialists whom he had sent to Japan to investigate. Later, he misleadingly told Congress there was “no radioactive residue” in the two devastated cities. Groves, was so worried about public revulsion over the terrible effects of the new weapon – which a Navy report later in 1945 called “the most terrible agent of destruction known to man” – that he cut off early discussion within the MED of the problem. officials and scientists overseeing the Manhattan Project were startlingly unprepared for the emergence of evidence of the long-term effects of radiation generated by the atomic bomb – even after the Trinity test in July 1945 and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 77 years ago this week, according to documents posted today by the National Security Archive. Washington, D.C., August 8, 2022 – After years of research and planning, U.S. FOIA Advisory Committee Oversight Reports.
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