"Get the Data of Hiroshima bombed!" US Research Team Sent. Dr Soko's A-Bomb 75years. DAY33/50

I hope to have your understanding that I have written this article for the future peace of the world. I do never intend to blame any countries . I believe we are all same human-beings who can care each other, and keep the peace of our home earth.

Research Teams from the US

What things do you think left in Hiroshima  and Nagasaki, after the atomic bomb dropped? 

While Hibakusha, the victims of the atomic bomb had suffered from a difficult time of living, then, some American doctors received orders to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Their mission was to collect the results of the atomic bomb dropped. Survey teams were sent from the United States. While the surrender document to Japan was being edited, GHQ (Headquarters) Surgeon Director Brig.Gen. Guy B. Denit started conducting the investigation project of the atomic bomb.

On August 28, 1945, Colonel Ashley. W. Oughterson of the United States Pacific Army Medical Corps proposed to send an investigation team to do a field study in Japan. Under the command of Guy B. Denit, GHQ (General Headquarters) Surgeon Director, the team landed in Yokohama on  September 1st.

They contacted the Japanese Imperial Government on September 3 and let them submit a report of the damage by the atomic bomb.
The Manhattan Management District (a unit of the Army Corps of Engineers who controlled the development of the atomic bomb) also dispatched a research team to Japan under the order of the Chief of Surgeon Brig.Gen. Guy B. Denit. Brigadier General Thomas Farrell arrived in Japan in early September. The investigation was scheduled for a short period of time, returning to Washington immediately and reporting directly to the president. First, in order to ensure the security of the troops under investigation, Colonel Stafford L. Warren's mission was to measure the radiation dose remaining in the bombed cities.

After that, the members were scheduled to stay in Japan for a brief period to summarize the medical consequences of the atomic bomb and report it to the President of Washington. On September 4, Brigadier General Thomas Farrell and GHQ's office of the surgeon's office had discussion, and made an agreement to conduct a unified study on the effects of the atomic bomb.

No route to Hiroshima, Countless Mines in the sea. 

The problem was how to get to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both the rail and air routes were lost. The only possibility was to reach Nagasaki by boat. On the other hand, it was considered impossible to reach Hiroshima by boat. This is because the Seto Inland Sea, which they had to go through to reach Hiroshima, was the sea where countless mines dropped by B29.
　

The problem was resolved because the Emperor requested protection from the Japanese police to ensure the safety of the study team's path. At the same time, Professor Masao Tsuzuki of Tokyo Imperial University, who was the representative of the study team on the Japanese side, will be in charge of contacting GHQ.

The First Group entered Hiroshima on Sep 8th

　The first research group entered Hiroshima on September 8 and arrived in Nagasaki the next day. The main study team entered Nagasaki on September 19, and the next study team joined there on September 29. However, due to the Makurazaki typhoon on September 17, which caused more than 2,000 dead and lost people in Hiroshima, the U.S. study team could not reach Hiroshima until October 12th.

　There was also a third American survey team. Immediately after the atomic bombing, the US Navy's Department of Medical Surgery decided to form a study team as soon as possible to analyze the medical problems of nuclear weapons. 

On September 8, Commander Shields Warren of the Navy Institute of Medical Sciences was ordered to join the Navy Technical Mission at Pearl Harbor and head to Japan. The Navy Technical Mission, under the command of Colonel Grimes, supported the Navy's medical units throughout the period staying in Japan. 

The Research Began by US teams

The Navy Technical Mission, under the command of Colonel Grimes, supported the Navy's medical units throughout their mission in Japan. After the transportation by U.S. Navy hospital ship, which was the base of the study team, and transportation by plane from Okinawa to Sasebo can work, the research project mainly began in Nagasaki.  

On October 3, Omura Naval Hospital, where the US Army and the Manhattan Management District's research team had already been stationed, was selected as the base for the US Navy Medical Corps, and Nagasaki Shinzenzen Hospital was another base. Research staffs in the United States were integrated at the Omura Navy Hospital, which was the base, and collected the research results.

The Ban for Japanese Scientists

In November 1945, at a special committee of the Science Council of Japan, GHQ / SCAP ordered a ban on publication of research on the atomic bomb. 　

Prof and Dr. Masao Tsuduki, who cooperated for researching on GHQ,  made the statement  that "At this moment, many atomic bomb survivors died one after another. Atomic bombing has not been clarified yet, and there is no cure for it. Even if it is ordered, the prohibition of research publication is humanitarian and it is hard to forgive." 

Prof.Masao Tsuduki was fired by Tokyo Imperial University right after this incident.