Beneath the cherry blossoms of Hiroshima, memories of devastation linger — but so does hope. This exclusive extract from Six Minutes to Winter, Mark Lynas’s urgent new book on the threat of nuclear ...

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.

But then, the artist didn’t have to provide the details of the Hiroshima bombing and its effects; Hersey had already ... survivors during and immediately after the blast.

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 ...

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.

compelled Japan to surrender as she did on August 15 instead of waging a showdown battle on the Japanese mainland is a justifiable conclusion drawn after one sees what used to be Hiroshima city.

Nearly eight decades after Hiroshima, the number of survivors of ... old who have been dying over the past decades from the side effects of radiation or natural causes. More than 100,000 hibakusha ...

“However, it is demanding because we have to make adjustments based on our sense and experience after replacing parts.” Hiroshima Electric Railway said it intends to continue to operate the ...

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 Hiroshima alone, the death toll climbed to over 100,000 by the end of 1945 and exceeded 200,000 after five years. In 1945, the National Academy of Sciences established the Radiation Effects ...

Many continue to suffer from the effects of the radiation even ... who served as Hiroshima mayor from 1991 to 1999 after being a top editor at a local newspaper. Another panelist, Tatsuya Mori ...