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 ...

Greg Mitchell is the author of Atomic Cover-up: Two U.S. Soldiers, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and The Greatest Movie Never Made. This program includes scenes of atomic bomb victims that some viewers ...

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 ...

Hiroshima, a city of approximately 350,000 ... Another estimated 55,000 or so people would die by the end of 1945 from the effects of the explosion, including radiation poison and burn wounds.

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 ...