I recommend a perusal of the short July 14, 2010 article "Secrecy and Deadly Radiation: On the Birth of the Nuclear Age 65 Years Ago" by Greg Mitchell published on The Nation website. This feature details the government secrecy surrounding the July 16, 1945 Trinity test, the true dawn of the nuclear age, in the New Mexico desert. Unsurprisingly, the author documents the biomedically unethical actions of a fascist cabal (government officials in collusion with private citizens).
General Leslie Groves, government scientist Robert Oppenheimer, and NY Times reporter W.L. Laurence merit special condemnation in the article for refusing to evacuate local residents, hiding post-Trinity health reports, and publishing government propaganda regarding the Trinity event, respectively. All four fundamental TJ/BC bioethical principles (justice, non-maleficence, beneficence, and respect for autonomy) were violated by these actions. The plumbline libertarian bioethicist is not surprised by the crimes of this cabal.
The author concludes the article by tantalizing the reader with a reference to the "Hiroshima Narrative." I imagine Greg Mitchell has reported this story elsewhere. I look forward to reading this bit of revisionist history.
General Leslie Groves, government scientist Robert Oppenheimer, and NY Times reporter W.L. Laurence merit special condemnation in the article for refusing to evacuate local residents, hiding post-Trinity health reports, and publishing government propaganda regarding the Trinity event, respectively. All four fundamental TJ/BC bioethical principles (justice, non-maleficence, beneficence, and respect for autonomy) were violated by these actions. The plumbline libertarian bioethicist is not surprised by the crimes of this cabal.
The author concludes the article by tantalizing the reader with a reference to the "Hiroshima Narrative." I imagine Greg Mitchell has reported this story elsewhere. I look forward to reading this bit of revisionist history.
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