ABSTRACT
Where the Tule Lake camp population was filled with deep grief for the relatives and next of kin who had become victims of the atomic bomb, anger and confusion were the dominant emotions at the detention camp in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the last year of the war, this camp contained in microcosm the whole Japanese community in the United States. The detainees had been separated from their wives and children, and transferred from one camp to another. The atmosphere in the camp made it impossible to broadcast President Truman's announcement of the end of the war, or to report it in the Japanese-language newspaper circulated among the detainees. The dropping of two different types of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in a test of the effect of the bombs on civilian populations. The POWs had been confined in several places in the city, and some were killed instantly by the bomb.
