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The Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, a multifunctional building created in 1915 that was used for research and design consultation, was one of the few buildings left standing after ...

In 1947, when parishioners of a D.C. church sent 1,000 pounds of school supplies to Hiroshima, the long-term effects of atomic radiation were little understood. But many Americans did have a vivid ...

These effects are known not just from thousands ... In 1945, the U.S. bombed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9, respectively. According to the Bulletin of ...

78 years ago this week atomic bombs destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... hid from the American public about the effects of the bombs.

IMMEDIATE BOMB EFFECTS On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. released a 10,000-pound bomb made with uranium-235 above the city of Hiroshima, Japan, which had a population of 350,000. Instantly, 78,000 people ...

Most of what is known today about the health effects of atomic radiation stems from research on the Japanese atomic bomb survivors. When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6 ...

Pellegrino’s Ghosts of Hiroshima will be published by Blackstone ... he answered questions about not showing the bombs’ effects on Japan in his film by hoping that someone else will tell ...

Some 200,000 people in Hiroshima are believed to have died within five years as a result of the blast and its long-term effects, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Ms. Sasamori recovered ...