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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

During World War II, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan ... now conspiring together," Abraham told CBS News. "Their effects are additive." The increasing measures of temperature ...