from Sputnik News:
A research group specializing in once-secret files has published a new dossier revealing that the director of the United States’ top secret effort to build an atomic bomb lied to lawmakers and the public about the dangers posed by radioactive materials.
The files were released on Monday by the National Security Archive, a private research organization based at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
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The findings show US Army Gen. Leslie Groves, who oversaw the Manhattan Project, lied to Congress and the American public about the harmful effects of radiation exposure. They also reveal J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos lab at the center of the project and the subject of a recently released major motion film, knew about Groves’ deception and did nothing to correct it.
At first, Groves claimed the radioactive materials were harmless out of simple ignorance, but later it became deliberate deception, the files show.
One file in the dossier is dated September 1, 1945 – about three weeks after the second of two atom bombs was dropped on Japan, killing more than 110,000 people and bringing an abrupt end to the Second World War.
Titled “Calculated Biological Effects of Atomic Explosion in Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” the two Japanese cities targeted, the memo revealed some of the bomb victims had not died from the air blast or the heat of the explosion, but from poisoning caused by radioactive fallout. Those victims died not when the bombs exploded, but days or weeks later.
