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	US STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY-EUROPEAN THEATER
		Nevertheless the attack on the aircraft plants, like the attack on the ball-bearing plants, showed that to knock out a single industry with the weapons available in 1943 and early 1944 was a formidable enterprise demanding continuous attacks to effect complete results.
		The attack on the synthetic oil plants was also found to have cost Germany its synthetic nitrogen and methanol supply and a considerable part of its rubber supply.
		The combination of the atomic bomb with remote-control projectiles of ocean-spanning range stands as a possibility which is awesome and frightful to contemplate.
	mason.gmu.edu /~ggault/StratBombSII.htm (6721 words)

	United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report (European War)
		The United States Strategic Bombing Survey was established by the Secretary of War on November 3, 1944, pursuant to a directive from the late President Roosevelt.
		Speer to Survey Interrogators on the Hamburg attacks.
		In January 1943, at Casablanca, the objective of the strategic air forces was established as the "destruction and dislocation of the Germany military, industrial, and economic system and the undermining of the morale of the German people to the point where their capacity for armed resistance is fatally weakened." Specific target systems were named.
	www.anesi.com /ussbs02.htm (12314 words)

	United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report (Pacific War)
		Survey interrogation of a scientifically designed cross-section sample of the Japanese civilian population revealed a high degree of uniformity as between city and rural sectors of the population and as between various economic and social strata in their psychological reaction to the war.
		As might be expected, the primary reaction of the populace to the bomb was fear, uncontrolled terror, strengthened by the sheer horror of the destruction and suffering witnessed and experienced by the survivors.
		The atomic bomb, in its present state of development, raises the destructive power of a single bomber by a factor of somewhere between 50 and 250 times, depending upon the nature and size of the target.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/AAF/USSBS-PTO-Summary.html (20350 words)

	United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report (Pacific War)
		Once started on a strategic plan which did not provide the means to assure continuing air control, there was no way in which they could revise their strategy to reverse the growing predominance in the air of a basically stronger opponent who came to understand this requirement and whose war was being fought accordingly.
		The proper target, after an initial attack on aircraft engine plants, either to bring overwhelming pressure on her to surrender, or to reduce her capability of resisting invasion, was the basic economic and social fabric of the country.
		The larger bomb loads of the B-29s permitted higher densities of bombs per acre in the plant area, and on the average somewhat heavier bombs were used.
	www.anesi.com /ussbs01.htm (19967 words)

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		The military segment of the organization was drawn from the Army to the extent of 60 percent, and from the Navy to the extent of 40 percent.
		The directors of the Survey, therefore, decided to examine exhaustively the effects of the atomic bombs, in order that the full impact on Japan and the implications of their results could be confidently analyzed.
		Before the atomic bombing on 9 August, Nagasaki had experienced five small-scale air attacks in the previous 12 months, by an aggregate of 136 planes which dropped a total of 270 tons of high explosive, 53 tons of incendiary, and 20 tons of fragmentation bombs.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~bwozniak/stratbomb.htm (8806 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Hiroshima Cover-Up Exposed
		The full story of this atomic cover-up is told fully for the first time today at E&P Online, as the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings approaches later this week.
		Because the footage shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was hidden for so long, the atomic bombings quickly sank, unconfronted and unresolved, into the deeper recesses of American awareness, as a costly nuclear arms race, and nuclear proliferation, accelerated.
		He was a director with the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, organized by the Army the previous November to study the effects of the air campaign against Germany, and now Japan.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/080205B.shtml (3731 words)

	August Marks Another Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Japan, the Ultimate Act of Terrorism
		Such was the fear of the "atomic plague" that people changed their names; most moved away.
		The modern Atomic Bomb Hospital, surrounded by pines and overlooking the city, which the Americans built and ran, took only a few patients for "study".
		None of this was shared with the public, nor the belief in Washington that the atomic bomb "experiment" in Japan, as President Truman put it, would demonstrate US primacy to the Russians.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0815-06.htm (1391 words)

	AlterNet: MediaCulture: Hiroshima Cover-up Exposed
		In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan almost 60 years ago, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings.
		The full story of this atomic cover-up is told fully for the first time at Editor & Publisher, as the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings approaches later this week.
		Having been to Hiroshima several times and the atomic bomb memorial museum, one cannot be anything but appalled at the severity, inhumanity, and immorality of these atomic weapons.
	www.alternet.org /mediaculture/23914 (5380 words)

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