responds to these newer agents. While refractory multiple myeloma is considered to be a disease that does not. respond to a particular therapy, the new definition of relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma includes patients. who show disease progression within 60 days of discontinuing therapy.
In the years since the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, a number of historians have suggested that the weapons had a two-pronged objective. First, of course, was to bring the war with Japan to a speedy end and spare American lives.resident Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
** President Truman in a August 9, 1945 radio address to the American people, outlined the reasons why we dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (and later Nagasaki). I realize the tragic significance of the atomic bomb. Its production and its use were not lightly undertaken by this Government.he Atomic bombings themselves are estimated to have killed about 150,000â246,000 people (almost all Japanese of course). Both at the time and today there were those who claimed the Japanese would not have fought like they did on Okinawa, and in fact were close to surrendering in a way acceptable to the US.