The long term effects of radiation exposure also increased cancer rates in the survivors. The detonation of atomic bombs over hiroshima and nagasaki in august 1945 resulted in horrific casualties. All the dedicated burn beds around the world would.
And 70 per cent of victims had combined injuries including in most cases severe burns. 42 of 45 hospitals were rendered non functional. In hiroshima 90 per cent of physicians and nurses were killed or injured.
The reason we know this is that the extent of the damage in hiroshima and nagasaki in 1945 made it nearly impossible to provide aid. Hiroshima was chosen as the primary target since it had remained largely untouched by bombing raids and the bomb s effects could be. This section recounts the first atomic bombing.
On august 6 1945 an american b 29 bomber named the enola gay left the island of tinian for hiroshima japan. While some feared that the city and its population were irreparably destroyed permanently cut off from normality by the effects of radiation many would be surprised to learn of the limited long term health effects the nuclear attacks on. Now the official flower of hiroshima the oleander offers a beautiful symbol for the city as a whole.
The long term effects of the bombings were felt through the landscape the environment and the people. Yamaguchi was recognized by japan for surviving in both cities where atomic bombs were dropped he died of stomach cancer in 2010 at the age of 93. Yamaguchi claims that at the end of this conversation the a bomb was detonated over nagasaki.
In the spring of 1948 the atomic bomb casualty commission abcc was established in accordance with a presidential directive from truman to the national academy of sciences national research council to conduct investigations of the late effects of radiation among the survivors in hiroshima and nagasaki.
