(WWII) Letter from three U.S. nuclear scientists to Japanese nuclear physicist Professor Ryokichi Sagane, dropped over Nagasaki, attached with the instruments used to measure 2nd atomic bomb blast
AirRaid
The Great Artiste, the support B-29 flown by Captain Frederick C.
Bock, dropped instruments attached to three parachutes. These
instruments also contained an unsigned letter to Professor Ryokichi
Sagane, a nuclear physicist at the University of Tokyo who studied
with three of the scientists responsible for the atomic bomb at the
University of California, Berkeley, urging him to tell the public
about the danger involved with these weapons of mass destruction. The
messages were found by military authorities but not turned over to
Sagane until a month later.[54] In 1949 one of the authors of the
letter, Luis Alvarez, met with Sagane and signed the document.
Letter
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..9th August 1945
Professor Sagane
From 3 of your former scientific colleagues during your stay in the
United States.
We are sending this as a personal message to urge that you you use
your influence as a reputable nuclear scientist , to convince the
Japanese General Staff of the terrible
consequences which will be suffered by your people if you continue
this war.
You have known for several years that an atomic bomb could be built if
a
nation were willing to pay the enormous cost of preparing the
necessary
material. Now that you have seen we have constrcuted the the
production plants,
there can be no doubt in your mind, all the output of these factories
working 24
hours a day will be exploded on your homeland.
Within the space of 3 weeks we have proof fired one bomb in the
American desert, exploded one in Hiroshima and fired the 3rd this
morning.
We implore you to confirm these facts to your leaders and to do your
utmost to stop the destruction and waste of life which can only result
in the total annihilation of
all your cities if continued. As scientists we deplore the use to
which
a beautiful discovery has been put, but we can assure you that unless
Japan surreenders at once, this rain of atomic bombs will increase
manyfold in
fury.