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‘A Smell of Death’
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‘A smell of death’
Just over a month after the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a US Navy officer visited the city and reported “a smell of death and corruption pervades the place”. By the end of 1945, over 140,000 people died in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki from the blasts. Survivors faced increased cancer rates, particularly...
After August 6, 1945, when the U.S.-launched atomic bomb killed some 140,000 people in Hiroshima and another 74,000 in Nagasaki three days later, it was believed that survivors, known as “hibakusha”, had recorded high cancer rates. But, a new study by Bristol University found that radiation-induced cancers from explosions have only killed less than 1% of the surviving population. Exposure to high levels of radiation increases the risk of cancer.…
Radiation Linked to Just 1 Percent of Deaths Among Hiroshima and Nagasaki Survivors, Study Finds
A study has found that, 80 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, radiation-related deaths among survivors accounted for only 1 percent of the total. Philip Thomas, professor of risk management at Bristol University, said that despite the slightly elevated risk the survivors faced as a result of their exposure to radiation in 1945, their lives will, on average, have been “decades longer than those of their forebears.” On Aug.…
Estimative is another study published 80 years after city bombings in Japan
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