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  2. Hiroshima Maidens - Wikipedia

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    In 1951, Tanimoto began working with the editor of The Saturday Review of Literature, Norman Cousins, to promote the women's cause, convincing him that the best course of action for the women was to take them to the United States to receive surgery there. It was Cousins who first used the English name "Hiroshima Maidens" for the women. [10]

  3. Effects of nuclear explosions on human health - Wikipedia

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    The medical effects of the atomic bomb upon humans can be put into the four categories below, with the effects of larger thermonuclear weapons producing blast and thermal effects so large that there would be a negligible number of survivors close enough to the center of the blast who would experience prompt/acute radiation effects, which were observed after the 16 kiloton yield Hiroshima bomb ...

  4. Effects of nuclear explosions - Wikipedia

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    These waves mostly damage junctions between tissues of different densities (bone and muscle) or the interface between tissue and air. Lungs and the abdominal cavity, which contain air, are particularly injured. The damage causes severe hemorrhaging or air embolisms, either of which can be rapidly fatal. The overpressure estimated to damage ...

  5. Hibakusha - Wikipedia

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    The Atomic Bomb Survivors Relief Law defines hibakusha as people who fall into one or more of the following categories: within a few kilometers of the hypocenters of the bombs; within 2 km (1.2 mi) of the hypocenters within two weeks of the bombings; exposed to radiation from fallout; or not yet born but carried by pregnant women in any of the three previously mentioned categories. [4]

  6. Sadako Sasaki - Wikipedia

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    Sasaki was at home, about 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) away from ground zero, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.She was blown out of the window and her mother ran out to find her, suspecting she might be dead, but instead finding her two-year-old daughter alive with no apparent injuries.

  7. An unsettling photo of a US physicist cheerfully holding the ...

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    Related: Iconic photos from WWII: Fat Man was the second nuclear weapon to be deployed in combat after the US dropped a 5-ton atomic bomb, called " Little Boy ," on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

  8. Declassified photos show the US's final preparations for the ...

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    On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima -- and newly revealed photos shed light on the preparations for the attack.

  9. The Hanford Site is America's most contaminated nuclear ... - AOL

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    Fat Man, the nuclear bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945, also contained Hanford's plutonium. The bomb killed an estimated 50,000 people in Nagasaki, The BBC reported.