新墨西哥原子弹实验以后不久,就从柯达公司(Eastman Kodak Co.)传来消息,说贴照片用的纸板,都被放射线所毁坏掉了。制造纸版的工厂有两个,都在 Mi dle West 地方,相隔五百哩。在一张长十七时,阔十四时,作 X 射线检验用的软片上,也有污点的发现。据调查的结果,第一颗在新墨西哥爆炸的原子弹,其影响所及的面积,有澳大利亚洲那么大。 Shortly after the experiment with the New Mexico Atomic Bomb, a message came from Eastman Kodak Co. that paperboard used to attach photographs had been destroyed by radioactivity. There are two factories making paperboard, all at Mi dle West, five hundred miles apart. In a long seventeen o’clock, wide fourteen o’clock, X-ray examination for the use of the film, there are stains found. According to the results of the investigation, the first atomic bomb that exploded in New Mexico affected the area as much as Australia.