HIS LIFE TO REPAIR DAMAGE
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Reeeived Sunday, 7.0 p.m. LONDON, August 3. ~ Dr. PI. N. United States, 111 a'spegali aL'a nieLtihg^ Colleg^, Oxford/ said Pfebfessbr Ar't^ttr a position in whicli he.'intbnds to repair some of the daniage done iVy the droppiMg'of the'ato^c bornb 011 Hii'oshima, as it was on Professor Comptdn's advice that President Truinan decided the bomb should be dropped. Dr. MacCracken said many seientists had been doubtful whether the bomb should be dropped and sent a round robin to President Truman then at Potsdam. President Truman replied to Professor Compton putting the responsibility 011 him whether to drop 'the bomb or not. "It was a terrible responsibility for one man but Professor Compton, having thought about it, -recornmended to President Truman that the bomb should be dropped," Dr. MacCracken said. Professor Compton had later resigned from his Chair of Physics and had accepted a position as a university president "to devote his life to the moral aspects of science."
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 August 1946, Page 5
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