Deadly
Imagine if you can a time and place where in one split second life as you know it is changed forever. The date is August 6, 1945, and you are living in Hiroshima. Around 8:16 a.m., without a single warning, an A-bomb explodes 580 meters above the city that you are living in and four different types of radiation have just been released into the air. The first two, alpha and beta ray radiation, will be blocked by the atmosphere and thus won't reach you on the earth's surface. The other two, gamma ray and neutron radiation, did come through the atmosphere and are now affecting your body in ways that people would only think could happen in science fiction books. How this A-bomb affects you depends on where you live. If you were at ground zero when it hit, you would have absorbed 10, 300 rads of gamma radiation and 14, 100 rads of neutron radiation. This means that if you lived through the bomb's heat and blast you would die within a week or two from the radiation exposure; which could be more than 700 rads of gamma, or 70-350 rads of neutron radiation. On the other hand, if you were one kilometer away from the hypocenter, you would have absorbed "only" 255 rads of gamma radiation and 191 rads of neutron radiation.
Even this shows that nothing in life is certain. She had been going every two years since she was two years old. Then they gave her a series of test such as electrocardiogram, an x-ray, blood tests, and also studied the condition of her heart. For those who entered the city within three days after the bombing, the rate is 7. A relative discovered it when the family went to spend time with Fujiko's family. I am going to be as blunt as I can about it because I feel that it only fair to the ones who had to live it. Her parents had always thought that she was such a healthy child. Her father had to hold her mother back from running to comfort her child. n if you lived through all this there was still the "ashes of death" that could kill you. During this time, there was an increase of stillborns and miscarriages that was eleven times greater than the normal rate, and infant mortality was eight times greater than the normal rate. The day was described as having a typical, slightly white, beautiful summer sky. She was the best runner in her class; which was called The Bamboos. Sasaki became worried and took her to the ABCC (Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission).
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