Death by Gamma Ray

Far more of the 125,000 atom-bomb casualties at Hiroshima and Nagasaki than were first reported came from the explosion's X-ray-like radiations. This fact, which medicine has long suspected, was confirmed last week by Captain Shields Warren, crack pathologist of the U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan.

Captain Warren classified four main types of radiation fatalities:

P:Death within a few days from a "big dose" of the rays.

P: Death within three weeks due to destruction of leucocytes (white blood cells) which combat infection.

P: Death in three to five weeks from destruction of blood elements that control coagulation.

P: Death after six weeks from anemia caused by the rays' destruction of tissues which form red blood cells.

Second biggest cause of atom deaths, said Captain Warren, was from flash burn caused by the blinding "atom light"--as bright "as though you had stepped up the intensity of the sun."

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