No one knew precisely the effect it would have ... food and water supplies. People exposed to large doses of radiation developed radiation sickness — “atomic bomb disease”.
One of them is 90-year-old Reiko Yamada, who was 11 and lived in Hiroshima when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Aug 6, 1945, killing around 140,000 people. That attack ...
By the end of 1945, an estimated 200,000 people ... from the effects of the radiation even today. “The film was made in a way to validate the conclusion that the atomic bomb was used to save ...
Only two atomic bombs have ever ... but decided to drop the bomb on Nagasaki after cloud cover over Kokura blocked the pilots' vision. Nearly 40,000 people died instantly in Nagasaki, while ...
Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima ... discrimination and fear of health effects from radiation, but she wants more people to know what nuclear weapons really do to them.