However, as the bombs were developed and subsequently used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, serious consideration was not given to the people whose entire bodies would in a single instant be exposed to massive, not-yet-calculable doses of radiation. “The chief effort at Los Alamos was devoted to the design and fabrication of a successful atomic bomb,” wrote physician and radiologist Stafford Warren, chief of the Medical Section of the Manhattan Project. “Scientists and engineers engaged in this effort were, understandably, so immersed in their own problems that it was difficult to persuade any of
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