Alumnus Recalls Effects of Bomb Over Hiroshima

"The world must find a way to prevent war from ever occurring if it is to avoid total destruction on the scale which I saw at Nagasaki," insisted Dr. Herbert W. Horne '37, in a speech last night before the World Federalists.

Dr. Horne, one of the first Western physicians to enter Nagasaki after the dropping of the atomic bomb, showed slides of the destruction which had occured in that city and in Hiroshima. He described Hiroshima as "a thriving city which physically disappeared in one second, a city in which 80,000 people were dead six weeks after the bomb had fallen."

Dr. Horne emphasized, "Of course this bomb was a peanut compared to today's hydrogen bombs, and because it was exploded 2000 feet above the ground its permanent radioactivity was relatively small." He added, "Ever since I saw the ruins of Nagasaki I have been convinced that the only answer to the bomb is a United Nations which can settle disputes by law and which has a police force to back up its decisions."