because of the lingering effects of radioactive fallout and other after effects, the Hiroshima death toll was probably over 100,000. The five-year death total may have reached or even exceeded ...

"[However] the hibakusha have continued to suffer from the after-effects of radiation. "While the memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are fading from the minds of people … We are standing at a ...

Ōe includes a letter from a Hiroshima doctor that asks, “Must all surviving A-bomb victims eventually meet a tragic death caused by radiation after-effects?” Ōe includes the letter and a ...

These effects are known not just from thousands ... The answer is a definitive no. After the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, residual radiation was left behind but this declined rapidly.

Information on breast cancer among survivors of the atomic bombings has now accumulated to the point where a fairly definite carcinogenic effect seems established. In women exposed to 90 rads or ...

Research has indicated that 24 hours after the bombing the quantity ... Listwa, Dan. “Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Long Term Health Effects.” Columbia University K=1 Project.

J. Robert Oppenheimer "plunged into a deep depression" after he created the atomic bomb. Historian Kai Bird said the physicist then began to publicly denounce use of the bomb. At a meeting with ...

In short, while the image is real, it happened after the bombing of Nagasaki, not Hiroshima. The earliest example of the claim that the photo showed an "atomic shadow" appeared in an October 2009 ...

Others include a Hiroshima prefectural official and a photographer caught up in military duties during warfare. Their pictures captured the mushroom cloud from various angles that formed after the ...