Re: Hiroshima: Of Historical Interest

["Franz Schoenhofer" <schoenho@via.at>]

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> Von: TOSH USHINO <ushinot@songs.sce.com>
> An: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Betreff: Hiroshima: Of Historical Interest
> Datum: Montag, 22. Dezember 1997 21:58
> 
>      Radsafers,
>      
>      Happy Holidays!
>      
>      Couple of weeks ago there were discussions of Hiroshima A-bomb
affect 
>      on RADSAFE so I assume there is still some interest on the subject.
>      
>      Recently, my wife found a copy of a U.S. leaflet I translated few 
>      years ago. I was told that it was dropped over Hiroshima right after

>      the bomb. A copy of the leaflet was bought to me by an another
worker 
>      here at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The original belongs
to 
>      her next door neighbor and he wanted to know if I could translate it

>      for him. I translated it and kept a copy. The style of writing is
from 
>      that period (My father still writes in that style), but my father
who 
>      was at Hiroshima does not recall seeing that particular leaflet.
>      
>      I scanned the leaflet into a TIFF format image file and have the
ASCII 
>      text of my translation. The image file is about 55K so I won't
burden 
>      the RADSAFE by posting it (to stay on Melissa's good guy list... I'm

>      assuming that I'm on the good guy list). If anybody is interested,
let 
>      me know. If there is only few interests I'll forward the two files
via 
>      email. If there is lots of interest, I'll see if I could find a Web 
>      Page where I could place it, probably after the holidays.
>      
>      Tosh Ushino
>      San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
>      ushinot@songs.sce.com 
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Yes, I would be very interested. I am interested in the history of
radioactivity and therefore also in the history of nuclear weapons.

Franz