A New Look at Nagasaki, 1946

About the Book

This book takes both a historical and personal views of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The historical view is provided by Dr. Devine, Joel Liebesfeld, Todd Liebesfeld, Esq., and Prof. Schuber. The personal view is presented by Dr. Doherty who discusses the account of Robert J. Walsh, a U.S. Army 34^th Infantry soldier telephone lineman, who was stationed near Nagasaki. Robert took approximately 275 pictures for his photo album with a simple Kodak camera. Many of the pictures are at ground zero and show the devastation of the atomic bomb as well as a marker for the epicenter. Robert was also electrocuted on high voltage wires and fell off a telephone pole to the ground. His back was broken in three places and he was put in a coma so that he would stay still and the back could be fused. While in a coma, Robert was lost in one of the nearby hospitals. His mother received a telegram that he was lost. His mother was completely beside herself and turned to Congressman Fred A. Hartley Jr. for help. Congressman Hartley launched an investigation and found Robert in a hospital in Japan. Robert was in a body cast for two years, part of it in a coma, but did not get a bed sore due to the results of a Japanese nurse named Snowball who invented a special medical instrument that she used with Robert. Robert was brought back home and brought back to Walter Reed Hospital where doctors used innovative techniques to help him heal and walk again. The book also ends with Robert as a senior citizen who lives a normal life leading a dance group at his retirement center.

About the Author

Prof. Eamon Doherty Ph.D. is a tenured professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey. Todd Liebesfeld, a multi-licensed and multi-certified attorney is a consultant to a variety of entities and serves as general counsel for Countermeasures Security, Inc. Dr. Joseph A. Devine is an Assistant Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University.  He is a graduate of the F.B.I. National Academy and the National Threat Assessment Center at United States Secret Service Headquarters in Washington DC. As a law enforcement executive Dr. Devine was involved in the many dimensions of the "consequence management" of the attacks of September 11th, 2001. He was also involved in the regional public safety/security planning for the Republican National Convention in New York City in 2004 as well as the regional response to the aftermath of Katrina.  In 2008 Dr. Devine trained with members of the Association of European Threat Assessment Professionals in Lucern Switzerland.  Trained in leadership at the United States Military Academy at West Point,he has taught leadership to students throughout the world. Prof. William Pat Schuber teaches full time in the new Master of Homeland Security at Fairleigh Dickinson University and is well known as a historian of World War Two and the Civil War. Prof. Schuber also teaches in the Certified Public Manager program. Joel Liebesfeld, MA, MAS has been in the electrical, electronics, telecommunications, and computing industries for 30+ years holding numerous positions including electro-mechanical engineer, field engineer, electrical journeyman, and superintendent/director of electronic technicians and electrical engineers.  Mr. Liebesfeld currently serves the legal and insurance industries as a senior electrical engineering investigator/expert witness in cases involving accidental and criminally initiated fires and explosions, product defects, code violations, etc., and he is also the CEO of the Internet/computing/physical consulting security company CounterMeasure Security, Inc